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In New Orleans, praying for a miracle
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jmcgee
That’s exactly what many are doing in and around New Orleans, and Ron Thibodeaux looks at how faith and prayer are pulling people together in the face of what might be an unprecedented disaster: St. Tammany Parish President Kevin Davis was organizing a midday briefing at Fort Pike, in eastern New Orleans, where he and…
Homily for May 9, 2010: Sixth Sunday of Easter
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jmcgee
In 1909, a wealthy French businessman named Albert Kahn set out to do something that had never been done before. He would create a photographic record of the entire earth. That was ambitious enough. But Kahn wanted this to be more realistic than anything that had ever been done. Because he wanted the photographs to…
Popular baby names come from vampires
By
jmcgee
Another sign of the times — and, I think, a rather disconcerting one. From the New York Times: For baseball fans, 2009 was the year of the Yankees. For job seekers, it was the year of the Great Recession. And for people who track baby names, it was the year of the vampire. The Social…
Report: Cardinal urges considering “quality” of gay relationships
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jmcgee
I can’t imagine this item will slip by without eliciting a lot of comment from the Vatican — and a few others: The head of the Austrian Church has launched an attack of one of the most senior cardinals in the Vatican, saying that Cardinal Angelo Sodano, dean of the College of Cardinals, “deeply wronged”…
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