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Benedict’s Resignation
Hard to believe that it was a fateful thirteen years ago on this February 28th that Pope Benedict XVI resigned the papacy, the first Pope to do so since Gregory XII, who voluntarily stepped...
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Nietzsche and Tumbler
Nietzsche either warned or advocated - depending on your point of view - the transvaluation of all values, which is to say, the inversion of the moral law. After all, from his perspective, after...
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Harvesting the Living
The words themselves are chilling: 'Pre-death approval by the coroner':
And on it goes into the abyss:
"17: The Chief Coroner may allow the removal of organs or tissue after the death of a person notwithstanding...
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Anastasia – the Musical!
I'd like to say publicly that the students here at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College, under the direction of our staff and faculty, did a wonderful, even a quasi-miraculous, job with the musical...
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By the Teeth of Saint Apollonia
Saint Apollonia (+249) was a virgin martyr put to death under the reign of Philip the Arab, just before the far more violent persecution under his successor, Decius. She was known as a 'deaconess',...
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Musical Offering: Bach’s Cantata for the Purification of Mary
J.S. Bach was a devout Lutheran, and, unlike some of the Protestant sects, had a great devotion to Our Lady. In 1725, on this February 2nd, the Feast of her Purification, when we also...
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Thomas’ Pange Lingua
Saint Thomas Aquinas spent some time in the early 1260's in the beautiful Italian city of Orvieto, perched way high up on a promontory, about an hour outside Rome. When I visited there years ago,...
