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Remember that recent Biden fundraiser in Manhattan with two other presidents and lots of celebrities? The big headline out of that event was that the Biden campaign raised $25.5M. Good times are here again for Joe Biden, we were told. As could have been predicted, the Trump campaign looked at that fundraising record and said, […]
Kate Montclair is dying. She has arrived at late middle age loveless, childless, and having failed to achieve the career dreams of her youth. Now diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, she sees the next fourteen months of suffering as an intolerable prospect. Kate is desperate—not only for a miracle cure, but for some sense […]
The Democrats have invested plenty of time, energy, and money trying to keep Donald Trump off of the ballot this November, hopefully by landing him in prison. But perhaps they should have spent a bit more time making sure that their own candidate will be on the ballot. Joe Biden’s campaign is now facing a […]
The angry thunderclaps that crashed in the darkness above Whitemarsh Plantation in Prince Georges County, Maryland, robbed Father John Carroll of any sleep his agitated mind might have allowed him on this May night of 1789. Before dawn of the next day, Carroll, bleary-eyed and still weary, rose from his bed, said his morning prayers, […]
If you are a Catholic you are familiar with Divine Mercy Sunday, which falls on the second Sunday of Easter (today). Saint John Paul II emphasized its importance and ensured that it was made an especially prominent feast day. The technicalities don’t matter if you aren’t Catholic, but its import in the Catholic calendar is […]
University of South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley is ok with transgender athletes competing in college sports. She delivered that opinion Saturday during a press conference. “I’m on the opinion of, if you’re a woman, you should play. If you consider yourself a woman and you want to play sports or vice versa, you […]
Note: I am currently on vacation, but please enjoy my reflection from 2018 on the same readings. This morning’s Gospel reading is John 20:19–31: On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst […]
Did the stroke that Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman suffered during his Senate primary run fundamentally change something in his brain? He seems to have fully recovered at this point after a period of time when he could barely speak coherently, but something about him appears to have changed. Fetterman was previously hailed as a democratic […]
One article showing up this weekend in the Associated Press seems fairly typical of election-year legacy media coverage at first glance. The title makes a generic accusation against “anonymous right-wing users” on social media who are spreading “false information.” Well, we certainly don’t need more of that floating around, so I suppose we’d better look […]
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