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Headlines related to this story have been blipping across my news searches for a week now, and I never bothered to click on them until today. It’s actually an interesting story which raises a lot of questions regarding restoration of historic buildings What to do with the Baltimore Basilica’s windows? Here’s the deal: There is…

A portrait of a convent on Staten Island Arranging care for an older loved one — a parent, grandparent, aunt or uncle — is difficult and complex, at best. Does he or she need skilled nursing home care? Maybe he or she is frail and just needs some assistance to remain independent and live at…

Or, our monk, the mayor: Monk becomes mayor of Florida town From his small-town roots in rural Ohio, the Saint Leo Abbey monk found in St. Leo a town sharing so many similarities to his home, that he embraced it as his life’s destination. Last week, the town embraced him back when commissioners unanimously named…

Wesley Smith on the role that the disability-rights community has had on assisted-suicide legislation The energetic commitment of the disabled-rights community, more than any other single factor, has thwarted the assisted-suicide movement. Because disability-rights activists are generally politically liberal, distinctly secular in outlook, and often supportive of abortion rights, the media can no longer caricature…

Bishop Brown of Orange nails statement to door Turning to an ancient method of public notice, Bishop Tod D. Brown on Sunday nailed to the doors of Holy Family Cathedral a document proclaiming a commitment by the Diocese of Orange to help heal the wounds caused by the Roman Catholic sex abuse scandal. The “Covenant…

…at the Vatican: Pope meets with Israel’s rabbis Calls for unity “During the next eight days, in every part of the world, Christians of different confessions and traditions will gather to pray intensely the Lord strengthens the common commitment for their full unity,” John Paul said. This year’s theme – peace – was chosen by…

An article about a Harvard course, which became a book and now will be a PBS series putting Freud and C.S. Lewis’ ideas about God up against each other For more than 25 years, Dr. Armand Nicholi has taught a popular course at Harvard University in which students deconstruct the lives and arguments of Freud,…

Okay, in honor of, oh, I don’t know – the second reading today, maybe – I’m shutting down the thread on the “Isn’t Life Complex” post below. I think a Sunday rest is in order for all.

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