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It depends on the surface. Some optical mice don't work well, depending on reflectivity of the surface and other things I haven't figured out yet. Sometimes also the surface can be hard to move a mouse on, and a mouse pad can help that too.

I have also been informed that the parents of today's students are a generation that grew up with cell phones. In general, they see no issue with having constant access to a phone. In fact, they champion access since "I may need to text my child." On the question of possession the mantra ...

My experience is that the bans are enforced. If yours differs, so be it. I agree they should be in place for all grades, not just high school.

One of the functions of law--one of its primary functions--is to make it easier for good people to live good lives. It turns out that parents need help in raising kids in our media-soaked society. I don't see this as the government taking over for parents. I see it as government giving parents an as...

There are flourishing women's orders in the US. Most of them can be found here: https://cmswr.org/about/member-communities/

Church law says that you have to attend Mass in a given time frame. It says nothing about what the prayers and readings have to be. So a Mass on Sunday evening would satisfy the obligation for the Immaculate Conception no matter what the prayers and readings are.

An awfully thin thread on which to hang an argument.

Baptisms are one of my favorite things to do! Congratulations!

Most (if not all) dying orders--male and female both--are dying of self-inflicted wounds.

It is important to understand that Hebrew does not have superlatives, "good, better, best," etc, so when they wanted to say that someone was the best, or the greatest, or whatnot, they would say "blank is blank among the blanks". For example, they couldn't say "Tom Brady is...

My understanding of the current status: The Old Covenant is not salvific, but the Jews remain God's chosen people in a way that the rest of us are not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersessionism seems to me to be accurate.

That is my thought process, at least.

She may well be dealing with ADD. Don't expect her to focus on anything for a long time, and don't think that calling her out will help. Go in bite-sized doses.

Doom wrote: ↑Fri Dec 05, 2025 4:16 pm I forgot about that; it was Pius XII who allowed an evening Mass. Is there a reason for the restriction beyond trying to make it more difficult to go to Mass?

It's probably connected to the fast from midnight, if I had to guess.

It is widely believed (with evidence) that the current patriarch of Moscow was on the KGB payroll back in the day.

Doom wrote: ↑Sat Nov 29, 2025 11:17 am But given the time that daily Mass is usually held, from as early as noon to as late as 5 PM, a daily communicant could be fasting for as much as 18 hours a day. That seems unreasonable.

It was also forbidden to celebrate Mass after noon.

I did.

anawim wrote: ↑Mon Dec 01, 2025 3:48 am

For 30 A.D.: May 06 Jun 04 Nov 28
For 33 A.D.: Apr 03 Sep 27

So do any of those 5 dates coincide with the Sabbath?

April 3, A.D. 30.

I was wrong about the new moon thing; eclipses are of course (duh) a full moon thing. And I found old eclipse dates:

Old eclipse dates.
For 30 A.D.: May 06 Jun 04 Nov 28
For 33 A.D.: Apr 03 Sep 27