Friday morning, we went to the Solanus Casey Center in Detroit, the first time since the new vistor’s center had been completed. I rather liked it – the display did a nice job of explaining his life and work, and had some interesting artifacts on display, including one of the small notebooks he kept, recording…

(Rumspringa being the time in an Amish young person’s life when they are given time to experience certain freedoms in life, part of the idea being to ensure that their choice to embrace adulthood as an Amish is really a choice.) Well, I learned yesterday (in reading a periodical – the Sunday supplement to one…

So. We’ve been back and forth to Canada several times since 9/11, and have experienced some relatively lengthy waits, but never any real problems. And, I’ll admit that I’d heard, here and there, that they were asking for birth certificates now, but we’d never been asked for it, so I sort of forgot about it.…

Conason isn’t my favorite, but, y’know… ….consider the long list of prominent Catholic Republicans who advocate abortion rights and civil equality for homosexuals. Like Mr. Kerry, these churchgoing pols have defied church orthodoxy. But unlike him, the Republicans can worship without interference from sanctified busybodies. Let’s name a few names, in the spirit of the…

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