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Google – Don’t Be Evil
Google's motto - replete with irony - was 'don't be evil'. They dropped that in 2018, although it's still apparently somewhere in their code of conduct. A headline recently said something rather unsettling, that...
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St Charles Borromeo, Man of God and Servant of the Church
Today, Monday 4 November 2024, as we are celebrating the feast of St Charles Borromeo, one instinctively moves my heart, the receptivity and the mission of this great man of God and servant the...
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Would the Real ‘Fascist’ Please Stand Up?
The term 'fascism' gets a lot of traction in politics, even if few of us could strictly define it. The etymology derives from the 'fasces' of the ancient Romans, a bundle of wooden rods,...
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Prayer to Mary Immaculate for the United States
At this critical time, readers may want to join in a novena to the patroness of the United States, Our Lady under the title of her Immaculate Conception.
A fitting brief prayer may be found...
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Blessed Terence O’Brien and Saint Alphonsus Rodriguez
This penultimate day in October - all hallowe'ed eve's eve - is the memorial of the Irish bishop and martyr, Terence O'Brien (1601-1651), put to a brutal death on October 30th for his hand...
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Untrammeled Immigration: A Reply to a Reader
A reader sent in the following comment:
Your stated goal “endeavours to foster the *culture of life* by reporting truthfully, critically, contextually, and … guided by a *cultural vision inspired by Catholic doctrine*” yet you...
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Bill Gates on the Hot Seat
There's more than a little schadenfreude in seeing Bill Gates put through his paces by this doughty interviewer. The commentator is right when he says, 'she'll never be invited back'. Gates storms off in...
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Tallis, and Verily, Verily I Say Unto Thee
As we commemorated the other day the 'Forty Martyrs of England and Wales' - chosen amongst the countless host put to death for their Catholic Faith during the Protestant revolt - here is a...
