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To Loreto and beyond
By
awelborn
The next week will be a busy one for the Pope. There are two journeys on the calendar. Tomorrow and Sunday, he will be in Loreto, in northern Italy, for a gathering of youth called the “Agora.” Here is his schedule, which includes, tomorrow evening, one of those sessions we all appreciate so much –…
More Mother Teresa
By
awelborn
A few interesting reactions from here and there: Carl Olson has some excerpts from Christopher Hitchens on MSNBC. The man (Hitchens) is pathological in his hatred of Mother Teresa. What is it in her that riles him so? We can only guess. Whatever else can be said about Atheistic Flavor of the Year Christopher Hitchens,…
Good reads
By
awelborn
I mentioned the other day that I’d read The Pawnbroker by Edward Lewis Wallant, an American writer who died in 1962 at the age of 36. Two of his novels, including The Pawnbroker, were published during his life, and two posthumously. I just finished on of those, The Tenants of Moonbloom, in a new edition from…
Still here
By
awelborn
Still here. Just working and reading and, in the most absorbing task of the last two or three weeks, potty training. But do you know what? Done! This time last week, I was near despair. Telling myself that this was nothing in the grand scheme of things and that he certainly wouldn’t be in diapers at…
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