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Why do bad things happen to good people?
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jmcgee
The brilliant Dr. Peter Kreeft offers some provocative answers: First, who’s to say we are good people? The question should be not “Why do bad things happen to good people?” but “Why do good things happen to bad people?” If the fairy godmother tells Cinderella that she can wear her magic gown until midnight, the…
Homophobia in the Church? Really?
By
jmcgee
The opening paragraphs of this piece at Huffington Post by Michele Somerville certainly got my attention: I attended a Roman Catholic baptism about two weeks ago. A crowd of young parents and others of all ages stood in semi-circle around the font. The atmosphere was reverent yet festive. Toddlers squirmed. The church was exquisite. Blades…
Ann Coulter, Catholic
By
jmcgee
I’ve wondered about that for a while, and now this curious piece in the New York Times — in the Fashion section, believe it or not — confirms it (though Coulter, it seems, is, um, un-comfirmed…literally): Ms. Coulter was born in 1961, the youngest of three children in suburban New Canaan, Conn., where she was…
CNN = The Jesuits?
By
jmcgee
“The CNN culture is still very strange. You walk into that building, you think you’re the Jesuits and you’re protecting a certain legacy. They still look at Fox as a carnival–not Fox as a brilliant marketing entity. It’s weird. They’re decades into it, and they’ll protect it to the end.” — Disgraced former governor-turned-TV-host Eliot…
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