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<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: New Advent <noreply@newadvent.org><BR>Subject: CATHOLIC NEWS: History in Houston: Steenson takes reins of Ordinariate, prepares to welcome Episcopalian and Anglican converts to Catholic Church...... PLUS 21 MORE<BR>To: arthurkelly@yahoo.com<BR>Date: Monday, February 13, 2012, 1:04 PM<BR><BR>
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<LI><A href="http://us.mc659.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.tm=1319063597#1" rel=nofollow>History in Houston: Steenson takes reins of Ordinariate, prepares to welcome Episcopalian and Anglican converts to Catholic Church...</A> </LI>
<LI><A href="http://us.mc659.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.tm=1319063597#2" rel=nofollow>Four years ago, I learned that my mother had conceived a child after being raped by her own father. And I was that child...</A> </LI>
<LI><A href="http://us.mc659.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.tm=1319063597#3" rel=nofollow>Astronauts take video as ISS passes over Gulf of Mexico and up the east coast. How many cities can you identify?</A> </LI>
<LI><A href="http://us.mc659.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.tm=1319063597#4" rel=nofollow>Raiders of the Lost Ark: A new commentary on a classic film...</A> </LI>
<LI><A href="http://us.mc659.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.tm=1319063597#5" rel=nofollow>Let's talk about sex...</A> </LI>
<LI><A href="http://us.mc659.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.tm=1319063597#6" rel=nofollow>Liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg admits: Roe v. Wade "moved far too fast"...</A> </LI>
<LI><A href="http://us.mc659.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.tm=1319063597#7" rel=nofollow>If you think a young man may have a vocation to the priesthood, tell him so...</A> </LI>
<LI><A href="http://us.mc659.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.tm=1319063597#8" rel=nofollow>White House Chief of Staff Jacob Lew says Obama is done "negotiating", and will force free contraception rule whether Catholics like it or not...</A> </LI>
<LI><A href="http://us.mc659.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.tm=1319063597#9" rel=nofollow>We're missing an opportunity here. The Obama healthcare debate isn't really about religious liberty...</A> </LI>
<LI><A href="http://us.mc659.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.tm=1319063597#10" rel=nofollow>How did American Catholics get ourselves in this predicament? We did it with the best of intentions. But we did not stop to think...</A> </LI>
<LI><A href="http://us.mc659.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.tm=1319063597#11" rel=nofollow>"If what goes on in someone's bedroom is none of my business, then don't make me pay for their supplies or consequences."</A> </LI>
<LI><A href="http://us.mc659.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.tm=1319063597#12" rel=nofollow>Remember when no one understood why ABC asked about contraception at the New Hampshire Republican debate? It seemed strange then, but it all makes sense now...</A> </LI>
<LI><A href="http://us.mc659.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.tm=1319063597#13" rel=nofollow>Hagia Sophia is No Lady</A> </LI>
<LI><A href="http://us.mc659.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.tm=1319063597#14" rel=nofollow>The monks of Ramsgate have shockingly put on the secular market sacred vessels given by generations of the faithful...</A> </LI>
<LI><A href="http://us.mc659.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.tm=1319063597#15" rel=nofollow>The loss of the apostrophe in "Valentine's Day" is like the loss of a bolt in the wing of an airplane...</A> </LI>
<LI><A href="http://us.mc659.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.tm=1319063597#16" rel=nofollow>The Detroit Free Press profiles Michael Voris of Real Catholic TV...</A> </LI>
<LI><A href="http://us.mc659.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.tm=1319063597#17" rel=nofollow>Some thoughts on science and faith from an unexpected source...</A> </LI>
<LI><A href="http://us.mc659.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.tm=1319063597#18" rel=nofollow>If someone tells you that Matthew invented the idea that Jesus founded a Church, here's what you should say...</A> </LI>
<LI><A href="http://us.mc659.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.tm=1319063597#19" rel=nofollow>Obama's "accommodation" only made matters worse. Either he just doesn't get it, or he just doesn't care...</A> </LI>
<LI><A href="http://us.mc659.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.tm=1319063597#20" rel=nofollow>Leaked letters reveal Viganò's complaints of corruption</A> </LI>
<LI><A href="http://us.mc659.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.tm=1319063597#21" rel=nofollow>Facing the elephant in the room of Vatican disarray</A> </LI>
<LI><A href="http://us.mc659.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.tm=1319063597#22" rel=nofollow>Nun Maintains Polish Ties Through 100-Year Family Correspondence</A> </LI></UL>
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<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 140%; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12px">Clad in the pontificalia of a bishop yet still the married father of three, this Sunday made for a unique moment in the life of the Stateside church as Jeffrey Steenson -- once head of the Episcopal church's most sprawling diocese -- was liturgically installed as founding shepherd of the nationwide Ordinariate for Anglicans entering the Catholic communion, dedicated to the Chair of St Peter.<IMG src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~4/hxwLuaXqmuU?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" width=1 height=1></DIV></TD></TR>
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<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px 3px"><A style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 15px" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~3/n91OKL_Ekgk/at-30-i-learned-that-my-mother-was-raped-by-her-fatherand-i-was-that-child?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" name=2 rel=nofollow target=_blank>Four years ago, I learned that my mother had conceived a child after being raped by her own father. And I was that child...</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 140%; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12px">In May of 1978, God put forth the plans for my life. I was given up for adoption when I was only three days young. My adoptive parents were unable to have any children of their own, and were ecstatic that their dream of raising a child was about to come true. God placed me in the arms of two very loving people who took me in and provided me with unconditional love, support and opportunities that shaped the foundation of the person that I am today.<IMG src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~4/n91OKL_Ekgk?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" width=1 height=1></DIV></TD></TR>
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<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px 3px"><A style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 15px" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~3/1DLhtnMEEws/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" name=3 rel=nofollow target=_blank>Astronauts take video as ISS passes over Gulf of Mexico and up the east coast. How many cities can you identify?</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 140%; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12px">As the ISS travels northeast over the gulf, some southeastern United States cities can be distinguished, like New Orleans, Mobile, Jacksonville, and Atlanta. Continuing up the east coast, some northeastern states, like Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City stand out brightly along the coastline. The Aurora Borealis shines in the background as the pass finishes near Newfoundland.<IMG src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~4/1DLhtnMEEws?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" width=1 height=1></DIV></TD></TR>
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<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px 3px"><A style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 15px" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~3/ucydhH9zDPg/116969?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" name=4 rel=nofollow target=_blank>Raiders of the Lost Ark: A new commentary on a classic film...</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 140%; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12px">In this “filmumentary,” Jamie Benning combines the entire film Raiders of the Lost Ark, behind-the-scenes footage, a transcript of an early story conference, and a series of interviews related to the movie from all the principals. What you get is a feature-length (over two hours) documentary on the film, full of fun facts (popup video style) and insights on Raiders. It’s like the best DVD extra you’ve ever seen — and it’s free! Set aside a few hours for this gem; you’ll enjoy hearing how all the pieces fit together (including the student whose eyelids say “LOVE YOU” — you’ll be surprised whose idea that was). Also, did you know Porkins (from Star Wars) makes an appearance in Raiders? Yep. Lots and lots of Star Wars crossover stuff in this one I had no idea about.<IMG
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<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 140%; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12px">I went to Mass Sunday morning at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart on the campus of the University of Notre Dame. The Gospel and homily were appropriately about sacramental cleansing. Appropriate, always. And maybe especially when we are being called in a whole new way to be apostles in the United States. Are we who we say we are? Will we fight for the right to be? Or has something else become our religion?<IMG src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~4/ZTBmbbAdfNk?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" width=1 height=1></DIV></TD></TR>
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<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px 3px"><A style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 15px" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~3/rjKVDtuqiDc/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" name=6 rel=nofollow target=_blank>Liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg admits: Roe v. Wade "moved far too fast"...</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 140%; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12px">Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg suggested Friday that her predecessors on the high court mistimed the milestone 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide. "It's not that the judgment was wrong, but it moved too far too fast," Ginsburg told a symposium at Columbia Law School marking the 40th anniversary of her joining the faculty as its first tenure-track female professor. At the time of Roe v. Wade, abortion was legal on request in four states, allowed under limited circumstances in about 16 others, and outlawed under nearly all circumstances in the other states, including Texas — where the Roe case originated.<IMG src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~4/rjKVDtuqiDc?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" width=1 height=1></DIV></TD></TR>
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<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px 3px"><A style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 15px" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~3/nJ8e4p5gdqQ/if-you-think-someone-may-have-vocation.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" name=7 rel=nofollow target=_blank>If you think a young man may have a vocation to the priesthood, tell him so...</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 140%; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12px">I’m getting to think there’s no such thing as a coincidence. Or else everything is a coincidence. For the past year, I’ve watched a young man who comes to daily Mass at our parish. Young men at daily Mass are relatively rare, but I was also particularly struck by his demeanor: respectful, serious but joyful. I began to think that “Bob” might make a fine priest, but for months I was shy about saying anything to him. Finally, three days ago, at Friday morning’s Mass, I happened to be exiting with him, shoulder to shoulder in the aisle.<IMG src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~4/nJ8e4p5gdqQ?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" width=1 height=1></DIV></TD></TR>
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<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px 3px"><A style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 15px" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~3/S1ZA3PBDJn0/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" name=8 rel=nofollow target=_blank>White House Chief of Staff Jacob Lew says Obama is done "negotiating", and will force free contraception rule whether Catholics like it or not...</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 140%; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12px">Despite renewed statements of concern by Catholic leaders and lawmakers, the Obama administration is done negotiating and will finalize its plan requiring insurance companies to provide free contraception to women working and studying at religious institutions, President Obama's chief of staff said Sunday. Jacob Lew told "Fox News Sunday" that the compromise offered last week to address objections by the Catholic Church is clear and consistent with the president's "very deep belief that a woman has a right to all forms of preventive health care, including contraception."<IMG src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~4/S1ZA3PBDJn0?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" width=1 height=1></DIV></TD></TR>
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<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px 3px"><A style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 15px" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~3/dO-UBDMUexE/were-missing-opportunity-why-obama.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" name=9 rel=nofollow target=_blank>We're missing an opportunity here. The Obama healthcare debate isn't really about religious liberty...</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 140%; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12px">The recent debates over the Obama Healthcare mandate regarding insurance and policies regarding abortion and contraceptive services are being described by many as an infraction against religious freedom. Is this the best strategy? It seems that many well-meaning Catholics are rallying to a strategy based on the administration's "violation of religious freedom." There have also been recent Facebook initiatives led by Catholics such as Rosaries for Religious Freedom etc.<IMG src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~4/dO-UBDMUexE?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" width=1 height=1></DIV></TD></TR>
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<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px 3px"><A style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 15px" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~3/Ctpp0ti63Ok/American-Catholicism-s-Pact-With-the-Devil?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" name=10 rel=nofollow target=_blank>How did American Catholics get ourselves in this predicament? We did it with the best of intentions. But we did not stop to think...</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 140%; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12px">You have to hand it to Barack Obama. He has unmasked in the most thoroughgoing way the despotic propensities of the administrative entitlements state and of the Democratic Party. And now he has done something similar to the hierarchy of the American Catholic Church. At the prospect that institutions associated with the Catholic Church would be required to offer to their employees health insurance covering contraception and abortifacients, the bishops, priests, and nuns scream bloody murder.<IMG src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~4/Ctpp0ti63Ok?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" width=1 height=1></DIV></TD></TR>
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<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px 3px"><A style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 15px" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~3/P3WY9fjeBmE/succinct-2.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" name=11 rel=nofollow target=_blank>"If what goes on in someone's bedroom is none of my business, then don't make me pay for their supplies or consequences."</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 140%; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12px">Conversely, if somebody is going to force me to pay for their supplies and consequences, don’t tell me it’s none of my business.<IMG src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~4/P3WY9fjeBmE?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" width=1 height=1></DIV></TD></TR>
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<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px 3px"><A style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 15px" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~3/5jXwQQXfay4/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" name=12 rel=nofollow target=_blank>Remember when no one understood why ABC asked about contraception at the New Hampshire Republican debate? It seemed strange then, but it all makes sense now...</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 140%; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12px">Remember when George Stephanopoulos, at the New Hampshire Republican debate on January 7, brought up and harped on whether the candidates thought states could ban contraception? Everyone, at least on our side of the aisle, shook their heads in disbelief as to why Stephanopoulos was bringing up the issue. There was no active controversy over contraception, it wasn’t in the news, and there were far more pressing political issues, yet what seemed like an eternity of debate time was devoted to the subject at the insistence of Stephanopoulos.<IMG src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~4/5jXwQQXfay4?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" width=1 height=1></DIV></TD></TR>
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<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 140%; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12px">The Holy Spirit is the motive force, the breath that moves our limbs, the gasoline that runs the ambulance…. He is, to return to the Hebrew image of the Shekhinah, the immanent presence of the transcendent God. We are shown the Father through the person of Christ, but we don’t encounter Him directly on this earth. We encounter Christ primarily through the Eucharist, though He’s also present in a more diluted way in the Church itself, which makes up His “mystical body” (to which His spirit is wedded, as bridegroom).<IMG src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~4/p14z7AsagV0?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" width=1 height=1></DIV></TD></TR>
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<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px 3px"><A style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 15px" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~3/HrOU-x0WXMg/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" name=14 rel=nofollow target=_blank>The monks of Ramsgate have shockingly put on the secular market sacred vessels given by generations of the faithful...</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 140%; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12px">This week’s print edition of The Catholic Herald, in this week’s Charterhouse column, contains a very remarkable article which you will not have seen on this website. It is a stinging critique, by John Gummer (also now confusingly known as Lord Deben), of the actions of the 11 Benedictine monks of Ramsgate Abbey, and in particular of their abbot. The Ramsgate Benedictines have moved into smaller and more manageable premises: and on doing so, they have put up many of their treasures for sale by auction.<IMG src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~4/HrOU-x0WXMg?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" width=1 height=1></DIV></TD></TR>
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<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px 3px"><A style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 15px" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~3/Px9vlozBbwU/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" name=15 rel=nofollow target=_blank>The loss of the apostrophe in "Valentine's Day" is like the loss of a bolt in the wing of an airplane...</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 140%; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12px">I have long since been de-sensitized to the anarchy now prevailing at the ends of printed English words, where once there could be found clear distinctions between plural nouns, singular possessives, and plural possessives. I confess that wishes of “Happy New Years!” make me a little depressed, but only because they heighten my anxieties about how quickly time is passing. It has been a while since I annoyed my friends the Smiths, who have a hand-painted wooden sign hanging by their front door that proclaims “WELCOME TO THE SMITH’S,” with impertinent questions about which one of them exactly owns the house and is arrogant enough to call himself “the Smith”.<IMG src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~4/Px9vlozBbwU?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" width=1 height=1></DIV></TD></TR>
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<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px 3px"><A style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 15px" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~3/q4KA3pbw19A/Views-on-provocative-Real-Catholic-TV-station-anger-Detroit-archdiocese-and-others?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" name=16 rel=nofollow target=_blank>The Detroit Free Press profiles Michael Voris of Real Catholic TV...</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 140%; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12px">As a Catholic TV station based in Ferndale becomes increasingly popular around the world, church officials are trying to tell the public that the media outlet does not represent Catholicism. In two public statements, the Archdiocese of Detroit has taken the unusual step of publicly criticizing Real Catholic TV, saying "that it does not have the authorization required under church law to identify or promote itself as Catholic."<IMG src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~4/q4KA3pbw19A?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" width=1 height=1></DIV></TD></TR>
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<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px 3px"><A style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 15px" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~3/1i5TuRJsNB8/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" name=17 rel=nofollow target=_blank>Some thoughts on science and faith from an unexpected source...</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 140%; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12px">Generally, when I think of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., I presume that I will be seeking answers or insights into racial justice, and significant issues of poverty and the social Gospel. Yet recently, I came across some quotes which cast light on the relationship of science and faith, another critical issue in our time. Allow me to share three such quotes and then provide a little commentary of my own.<IMG src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~4/1i5TuRJsNB8?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" width=1 height=1></DIV></TD></TR>
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<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px 3px"><A style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 15px" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~3/Pj1HfwIYLug/did-matthew-invent-the-idea-that-jesus-founded-a-church?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" name=18 rel=nofollow target=_blank>If someone tells you that Matthew invented the idea that Jesus founded a Church, here's what you should say...</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 140%; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12px">The attempt to tease a “real Jesus” out of the gospels and separate him from the actual Jesus who is portrayed by the evangelists is a fool’s errand. It tells us only what the reader likes to exaggerate and what he likes to ignore in the testimony of the evangelists. It tells us nothing about the “real Jesus” because the real Jesus is the one the evangelists are describing for us.<IMG src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~4/Pj1HfwIYLug?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" width=1 height=1></DIV></TD></TR>
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<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px 3px"><A style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 15px" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~3/UyTBvyTaAUY/just-minute-mr-president.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" name=19 rel=nofollow target=_blank>Obama's "accommodation" only made matters worse. Either he just doesn't get it, or he just doesn't care...</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 140%; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12px">Freedom of conscience and religious liberty are not concessions grudgingly granted by the Federal Government--either directly, or by way of exemption or exception. Our nation was founded on those basic and inalienable rights as the bedrock of who we are as Americans. Our Constitution was written precisely to reject and to avoid the dreadful English model whereby the king and the government are the granter of all rights--as well as the single power to withdraw, limit, or negate those rights.<IMG src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~4/UyTBvyTaAUY?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" width=1 height=1></DIV></TD></TR>
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<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px 3px"><A style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 15px" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~3/rMQuYUyLAVg/leaked-letters-reveal-vigan%C3%B2s-complaints-corruption?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" name=20 rel=nofollow target=_blank>Leaked letters reveal Viganò's complaints of corruption</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 140%; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12px">Both in Washington and in Rome, leaking supposedly confidential material is high art. Conventional wisdom in both places, therefore, holds that you should never write anything down you’d be uncomfortable seeing in the newspapers. As a veteran Roman now living in Washington, Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has fresh occasion these days to take that wisdom to heart.<IMG src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~4/rMQuYUyLAVg?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" width=1 height=1></DIV></TD></TR>
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<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px 3px"><A style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 15px" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~3/MODTLYdBkuY/facing-elephant-room-vatican-disarray?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" name=21 rel=nofollow target=_blank>Facing the elephant in the room of Vatican disarray</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 140%; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12px">A consistory, the event in which a pope creates new cardinals, is supposed to have a festive air. New cardinals bring family, friends and supporters to Rome, to see the sights and to enjoy one another’s company. The afternoon of the consistory is the only time the doors of the Apostolic Palace are flung open to the general public, giving the place the feel of a block party. This week, however, it’ll be difficult to just let the good times roll, because the Vatican hosting the 22 new cardinals Benedict XVI will create on Saturday once again looks like the gang that can’t shoot straight.<IMG src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~4/MODTLYdBkuY?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" width=1 height=1></DIV></TD></TR>
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<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px 3px"><A style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 15px" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~3/KhHdcbEcPvg/nun-maintains-polish-ties-through-100-year-family-correspondence1?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" name=22 rel=nofollow target=_blank>Nun Maintains Polish Ties Through 100-Year Family Correspondence</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 140%; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12px">When 18-year-old Rose Wnek left her family in southern Poland to come to America in 1913, she didn’t know at the time that she would never see them again. Nevertheless, the young immigrant kept up ties to her homeland through a correspondence that has spanned two world wars and communism and a Polish Pope’s papacy — and continues nearly a century later through her granddaughter, Sister Nancy Strillacci, and her Polish cousins.<IMG src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bestoftheweb/~4/KhHdcbEcPvg?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" width=1 height=1></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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