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Blustery Day
It’s been our plan to meet as a family on Fridays during Lent to pray outside our local Planned Parenthood. It’s a part of 40 Days for Life. Today, Travel Man and I decided it would not be a good …...
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Saving Our Children’s Purity, Part I
Our family is weird by today’s standards. In more ways than one. The first oddity is our undying devotion to the Catholic Church and all she passes on to us from God. Yes, all. No, we don’t think women...
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Saving Our Children’s Purity, Part II
I started with Part I here, which might be helpful to read first. Because of the deeply personal nature of this post, I previewed it with Big Girl and obtained her permission to post it as it appears...
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Teaching About Roe v. Wade
This week for history, Big Girl and I are going to follow up her lessons on the three branches of government with a lesson on Roe v. Wade and what the Church teaches about abortion. We’re actually...
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Someone to Admire?
It’s not unusual to read about celebrity meltdowns and their falls from grace. In the last couple of weeks, we’ve gotten to read about Billy Ray Cyrus’ regrets about his daughter, Miley, and her...
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Running from the Battle Against the Culture of Death
The USCCB has come out with a new translation of the New American Bible (NAB), which will be for personal use and will not be replacing the already-in-use translation that is proclaimed during Mass....
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Link-O-Rama!
It’s Holy Week, and that means I’m busy with Church (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday!) and cleaning up so the Easter Bunny isn’t hiding eggs in the clutter of our downstairs family room....
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Television and the Slippery Slope
There’s been a bit of news since Monday when “Dancing with the Stars” announced that Chastity/Chaz Bono will be a contestant on the show. She will be dancing with a woman. I say “she” because that is...
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Governor Mandates Via Executive Order That Adoption Services Must be Offered...
In a recent executive order, Bob McDonnell (R-VA) has ordered that all clinics that provide abortions first provide patients with specific information on adoption services. Pamphlets given out must...
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Mad Men & Fifty Shades of Grey: Two Easy Steps to Lead Yourself into Mortal Sin
“Mad Men” is a pretty popular show. People talk about it all the time, rave about the cool-factor of the show, and have started bringing back the fashions of the early 1960′s (which I welcome,...
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Thoughts on Why Romney Lost
I haven’t got the heart to really write well about this today, so I’m copying and pasting a bit from Twitter this morning. There, I was looking at Republicans and conservatives bemoaning and trying to...
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Letter to Joe Biden
For her religion class this week, my 11 year old read a chapter about respecting life. Her assignment for the chapter is to write in her journal about her experiences with 40 Days for Life, which she...
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Addicted to Excitement
Our culture constantly pushes the idea that things need to be exciting. An ad for a credit card features a man whose girlfriend breaks up with him for being “boring,” which he cures by spending money...
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It’s Not My Place
Crucifixion of Jesus (Russian Icon) by Dionisius Jesus died outside the gate, to sanctify the people by his own blood. Let us go to him outside the camp, bearing the insult which he bore. For here we...
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Rejected Stones
I swear, you’re going to start thinking this blog is about nothing but the Liturgy of the Hours. Last night, while praying Vespers, I had a bit of a lightbulb moment as I read the New Testament...
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You Don’t Help by Objectifying Me
Sweet Once again, we are approaching Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which seems to bleed more and more into September with every passing year. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for ethical breast cancer...
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Bias Anyone Can See
My older daughter had a research paper to do for tenth grade. The paper would also have to be persuasive in nature, and she was given a list of topics to choose from. She chose the topic dealing with...
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Do We Hate the Children We Have?
I’ve noticed something lately, and it bothers me a bit. There’s a widespread acceptance — and even encouragement — to talk about how you can’t tolerate your own children for extended periods of time....
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Love, Acceptance, and Crazy Relatives, Part 1
Our culture is so very broken. We’ve lost all sight of truth (or that there even is truth to be had), and have instead embraced the weakness of relativism. With relativism, no one is right or wrong —...
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Love, Acceptance, and Crazy Relatives, Part 2
Yesterday, I wrote about the Church being a voice of reason in a world gone insane. I discussed how the Church’s moral teachings hold up, and talked a bit about the Church being the place where we can...
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