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Here’s the haunting, beautiful ballad that just won the Oscar: “The Weary Kind,” by Ryan Bingham and T. Bone Burnett, performed by Bingham.

Take 90 seconds and look at this remarkable, moving video. And pray that more women in this circumstance make this choice. H/T Msgr. Pope.

At first blush, I thought this brief essay was a classic example of someone who had a deadline to meet, and nothing to say, and an editor breathing down his neck. But I’m thinking, no:  he actually has a good point to make. While sitting in church the other day, I was contemplating the meaning…

But those behind the incident are pleading ignorance.  Check out this news from Malaysia: A Malaysian Muslim magazine issued an apology after two of its journalists joined a Catholic service and allegedly desecrated the communion wafer. AFP reported the magazine, Al Islam, published an article describing how they took the wafer and spat it out…

That’s the punchline for the funniest 30 seconds from the classic “Airplane!” TCM was showing this last night. It’s not as good as I remember it; the experience of watching it in your living room is very different from watching it with 200 drunk college students, which is how I first saw it back in…

When my wife and I got married, a friend gave us a practical, but highly symbolic gift: a clock. It’s a lovely tabletop model, in a glass case, with gold fixtures and various moving parts. The gift was especially meaningful because time is part of what marriage is about – the commitment of a lifetime.…

Especially in the world of “edgy” advertising. The ads for the Showtime series “Nurse Jackie” are irreverent — but do they go too far?  I spotted the one below on the subway this week.    

Many months ago, I posted this promising news about a rare pro-life pharmacy in suburban Washington, DC. Now, sadly, the economic hard times have caught up with it: The only pro-life pharmacy in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area has announced that it is closing because of financial difficulties. The business’ pharmacist Robert Semler, quoted at…

Well, out of Hawaii comes this item, and it’s certainly something I haven’t seen in New York City: Attend any Big Island rodeo and you will see small leather crosses attached to the saddles of many of the riders. Each cross — a simple, durable profession of faith in God’s protection in a rough and…

Yes. Incredible but true. They’re called the Hotshot, and they’ve just gone on sale in Switzerland: Family planning groups and the Swiss Aids Federation campaigned to have the Hotshot produced after a number of studies, including the government study researched at the Centre for Development and Personality Psychology at Basel University. Nancy Bodmer, who headed…
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