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Mel, Flannery, and Rod
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awelborn
Rod Dreher in the DMN: Flannery O’Connor, who died 42 years ago this month, was an astute observer of the kind of progressive-minded Southerner who had been educated out of his prejudices, but who in truth traded one form of self-righteousness for a more insidious one. In two of her greatest stories, "Everything That Rises…
Take a break – if you can
By
awelborn
And use your time well… from today’s Angelus, translation courtesy of Teresa Benedetta: Dear brothers and sisters, In this summer season, many have left the cities and are in tourist destinations or in their hometowns for their annual vacation. To them I wish that this awaited period of rest may serve to refresh the mind…
None dare call it eugenics
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awelborn
But what else is it? Charles Colson the latest: In the absence of such a test for autism, researchers at University College Hospital London are settling for what they call a “close enough” solution. They have applied for permission to use pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, or PGD, to screen out male embryos in families with a…
One word, Your Holiness:
By
awelborn
Cobbler. For a change from strudel, yes? (Source, of course – scroll down for the answer to…why are there baskets of peaches on the floor of Castel Gandolfo?)
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