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Several days ago, I linked to a New York Times article about how the Catholic vote may be split this election year. This morning, two bishops — including my own — have responded in a Letter to the Editor: To the Editor: “Abortion Issue Again Dividing Catholic Votes” (front page, Sept. 17) says the bishops’…

Economically, it seems like we have walked to the edge of the Grand Canyon and peered over and watched pebbles fall noiselessly to the bottom. And all we can do is clutch a nearby railing and feel the tug of vertigo and mouth a terrified: “Holy crap.” Or words to that effect. The inconvenient truth…

A reader mentioned in the comments that you can sing “Amazing Grace” to the tune of “House of the Rising Sun.” Well, I found what may be the definitive version of that, from the Blind Boys of Alabama. Give a listen and see what you think.

If you read nothing else on this late summer evening, read this heart-rending account of a father remembering his first son, and hearing the news that he would be born dead: On the drive home, we were mostly silent. As if exchanging telegrams, Lisa and I said what we needed to and no more. We…
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