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Thomas the Boring Tank Engine
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awelborn
Pardon me, but I do think Thomas the Tank Engine has got to be the most boring children’s character/series ever invented. Not even counting the fact that there are a slew of trains with faces in the stories and who the heck can tell the difference between them all? I got a book or two…
The Monastery?
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awelborn
Did anyone watch it? I forgot. "The Monastery" being the Learning Channel’s attempt to duplicate the BBC program of the same name. The show’s website The Monastery of Christ in the Desert (And those of you who have been hanging around The Internets since the beginning know that the Monastery of Christ in the Desert…
Occult Compensation
By
awelborn
No, it’s got nothing to do with Halloween – finances. In a story about how the Archdiocese of Chicago is trying to take a strong defensive line against financial improprieties. (Actually, I’m not so sure that this definition of "occult compensation, offered in the story, is correct. Read the old CE definition and see what…
World Mission Sunday
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awelborn
The priest at the Mass we attended this morning is diocesan coordinator of the Pontifical Missions Societies – he preached his usual succinct homily, and this line jumped out: "If you could read the hundreds of appeals I receive from missionaries all over the world – asking for help with their work, and even for…
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