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Thursday, October 15, 2009

The Literate Octopus

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Here's a site that's been put up by a dear family friend who has just gone off to college. The purpose of the site is to be a resour...
Sunday, October 04, 2009

The Obama Nation

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(This is an article I wrote back in March for the 2009 issue of the Tarpeian Rock literary magazine . Just getting around to posting it now....
Friday, October 02, 2009

On the other hand...

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Here's a review of another book which purports to deal with the life and times of Constantine: The Age of Constantine the Great by Jaco...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Review of Constantine and the Christian Empire by Charles M. Odahl

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I have now read, in whole or in part, about a dozen biographies of Constantine the Great, from the original Vita by Eusebius Pamphilus writ...
Sunday, June 14, 2009

Review: For the Love of Literature

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I met Maureen Wittmann at a Catholic homeschool curriculum fair and found her to be a delightful lady, full of anecdotes and ideas. Her book...
Sunday, May 31, 2009

Good reading for Catholics--thought provoking for all others

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Here is a book on a subject that is perennially interesting to the general public--exorcism. As a Catholic myself, I have never had any doub...
Thursday, May 21, 2009

Don't Mess with Rolf

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Rolf is the only son of Hiarandi the Unlucky. Most of his father's ill luck springs from the fact that he is compassionate and that his ...

De-Certify Once-Catholic, Now-Dissident Universities

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As disgusting and disgraceful as Father Jenkins and the board of Notre Dame have been over the whole Obama commencement speech fiasco, it no...
Saturday, May 16, 2009

Lives of the Most Eminent Fathers of the Church that Flourished in the First Four Centuries With an Historical Account of the State of Paganism Under the First Christian Emperors By William Cave, Henry Cary

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I found this very interesting work on Google and am bookmarking it for future reference. Lives of the Most Eminent Fathers of the Church tha...
Friday, March 13, 2009

A beautiful tale of Ancient Rome and the early Christians

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Twelve year old Gretorix is a slave from far off Britain. His master, Justus, has bestowed him upon Diomed, a Roman boy who is paralyzed fro...
Friday, February 27, 2009

Starbuck nails it

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Anyone who's a child of the 1980s like I am knows who Dirk Benedict is. He was Starbuck, the hot-shot Viper pilot on the original Battle...
Saturday, February 21, 2009

Boston College -- Where young Catholics go to lose their Faith (assuming they ever had it to begin with)

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It's good to know that BC is doing such a bang-up job catechizing the students in its care in the basics of Catholic moral teaching. In ...
Saturday, February 07, 2009

Frank A. Lupo, Jr. -- 1971-2009

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A dear friend of mine, Frank Lupo (center), passed away suddenly last week at age 37. I knew him from my high school days at St. Joseph'...
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Monday, January 26, 2009

Book Review: The Hidden Treasure of Glaston

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Young Hugh is the lame son of an English nobleman--and not just any nobleman. Hugh's father was one of the murderers who struck down Arc...
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Friday, January 23, 2009

God bless Alveda King

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There's at least one member of MLK's family that got some of the slain civil rights leader's courage. Alveda King placed 1,400 f...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Cyclopædia of Universal History Being an Account of the Principal Events in the Career of the Human Race, from the Beginning of Civilization to the Pr

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Cyclopædia of Universal History Being an Account of the Principal Events in the Career of the Human Race, from the Beginning of Civilization...
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EWTN To Air 2009’s Historic “March for Life/Walk for Life”

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The secular media has made an annual tradition of ignoring one of the largest protest rallies in the nation--the March for Life which takes ...
Friday, January 09, 2009

Our state-sponsored media

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What do you call it when those in the so-called "free press" see their responsibility as primarily to exalt and defend our elected...
Thursday, January 08, 2009

Burying talents in Albany

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Yet another northeastern diocese is planning to close and consolidate a large number of Catholic churches. This time, it's Albany which ...
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Wednesday, January 07, 2009

A dog returning to his vomit

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The Obama administration is already looking like Clinton redux, so one would expect that among the first things our fearless leaders will do...
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A Roman tribune, my heroics helped defeat the Persians at the Battle of Satala in AD 530. Leading a squadron of heavy cavalry into the Persian center, I grabbed hold of the standards of the Persian general Mermeroes and flung them to the ground. Thinking their general slain, the Persian army fled from the field, but not before their elite Immortals dealt me a fatal wound.
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