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Two brothers, one mission
By
awelborn
Column from the Rochester paper about two elderly brother priests Bernard, 84, and Tom, 78, both joined the Oblates Order of Mary Immaculate and became Roman Catholic priests — Bernard in 1948, Tom in 1955. "I don’t know how, but even as a child, I wanted to go north," Bernard says. So he accepted an…
Life and its quality
By
awelborn
The reader who sent this in titled his email: Three days, two stories, one existential chasm, same newspaper. (The paper requires registration, btw) Peter Singer spoke to an audience of 900 (See, that in itself is frightening to me. Singer can get 900 out in Nebraska at a talk sponsored by Unitarians?) Singer’s 50-minute speech,…
B-16 on Foie Gras
By
awelborn
Reader James wrote and asked me if I knew the source of a quote from the Pope at Andrew Sullivan’s site – he gets it from a PETA-related site The new Pope has spoken movingly about the exploitation of all beings, particularly of farmed animals. When he was asked about the rights of animals in…
Terri Schiavo’s remains buried
By
awelborn
Michael Schiavo – who said he promised his wife he would not keep her alive artificially – also listed Feb. 25, 1990, as the date his wife "Departed this Earth." Patterico’s take
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