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A piece on a popular product, with an interesting Catholic-business-related tidbit. Soft Saints are not cheap – $98/apiece, but they are all handcrafted – the company’s originator employs mostly stay-at-home moms to do the doll construction. O’Toole’s decision to enter artisanship followed two years of caring for a cancer-stricken friend. When he died, she thought:…

A fascinating Dominican saint today: from a biography at an OP (not Ocean Pacific) website: In 1218, Bishop Kadlubec retired, and Hyacinth’s own uncle, Ivo Odrowaz, was selected as his successor. He immediately set out for Rome to confirm his appointment, and Hyacinth was among his companions. St. Dominic was at Rome at that time,…

A powerful piece from today’s WSJ – a woman of Russian parents responds to Ms. Magazine’s request that women proudly declare their value-neutral abortions. Like most Soviet-era fetuses conceived in Russia by couples who were already parents, I was scheduled for abortion as a matter of course. In a society where abortion was the only…

His most recent newspaper column: Catholics who do know history may remember the following:Islam has embraced armed military expansion for religious purposes since its earliest decades. In contrast, Christianity struggled in its divided attitudes toward military force and state power for its first 300 years. No “theology of Crusade” existed in Western Christian thought until…
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