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Oh, boy. Here we go again. Rod Dreher: I don’t know how the Post got the story, but chances are someone tipped them off to Moynihan, and they cross-checked property records, phone records, etc. The diocese didn’t want to know what Fr. Moynihan was up to, period. And you need to ask yourself why. Why… Continue reading

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William Murchison has some wise words for the tantrum prone wing of the Republican voting block: I have just the feeling that, with conservatives, this moment is one in which pique cancels out reason — a time for slamming doors and kicking the cat across the room — just because here at the end of… Continue reading

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Food for thought at Just Thomism: Reading modern debates between atheists and theists I get the sense that the topics come from rumors of topics long forgotten. Both sides have heard that there is a “cosmological argument” that has somehow proved God’s existence, but they devote page after page of critique or praise of this… Continue reading

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For those of you in the Boston area with long memories… Yep…even then I had a video camera. Glad I did, too. My daughters don’t believe we got a week off from school thirty years ago. [Note: The big guy in the picture is my late dad, David Farrell, former Globe columnist (he got to… Continue reading