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There's an interest parallel between this book and The Hobbit, regarding a journey that presents itself for one to go on. The start of that journey is, if nothing else, the break from all of the cozy comforts of one's life. But hopefully more, a development of virtue and a rooting out of vice. Bilbo...

Catholic school, 3K to 8th grade... If it's not teaching the 3Kers how to do yoga... it's presenting historical matters of race in our country to the point where my daughter, when she was in 5K, came home and actually said, "I'm really angry at white people". The school recently hired a te...

Who were some of the bigger names in apologetics that used to post on the old board? I believe I signed up in 2010 over there... and that was right after some of those folk had stopped because I could search for topics that were maybe only a year old by that point and still see Steve Ray post. I th...

Who were some of the bigger names in apologetics that used to post on the old board? I believe I signed up in 2010 over there... and that was right after some of those folk had stopped because I could search for topics that were maybe only a year old by that point and still see Steve Ray post. I tho...

I didn't know all of that about Sungenuis. I do remember some scandal about a movie he worked on where they tricked a well-known physicist to appear on a movie about heliocentrism. Yeah, not shady stuff at all.

I'm a bit more familiar with Sungenius. His old debate with James White was incredible. That's at least what I thought years back. I was just happy to see a Catholic not prance around issues and dive right back at White. However, maybe if I were to watch it now I'd feel different. I don't know much ...

There are quite a few popular online Catholic apologists: Trent Horn, Keith Nester, Scott Hahn, Jimmy Akin, Bishop Barron, Taylor Marshall, Matt Fradd, Joe Heschmeyer, Eric Sammons, Larry Chapp, numerous others. Some more Traditional, some leaning more progressive. It hits me at times that Mark Shea...

I'm never stunned by the things i see in the National Catholic Report. At times, just to see their view on a matter I'll read an article. The article by Michael Sean Winters was something else though. Winters says, All three had cast aspersions on Pope Francis, even questioning his orthodoxy. They d...

We have a new priest and he's done something that no previous priest has done (since I've been a member at this parish)... he sent out a text message to all parishioners reminding them it's a Holy Day and that we must attend. I really liked it. I would have forgotten and then confessed it, not this...

He has a hint of the eternal youth then.

Like you said, he certainly does not act like he's in his 80s.

anawim wrote: ↑Fri Aug 01, 2025 2:57 pm

Obi-Wan Kenobi wrote: ↑Fri Aug 01, 2025 1:38 pm Dr. Martin is near retirement age anyhow, and I don't think he needs another job, though that doesn't excuse what happened.

He's 82 but doesn't act it. I'm in worse shape than he is, and I'm 71.

Ralph Martin is 82 years old?
No way.

We have a new priest and he's done something that no previous priest has done (since I've been a member at this parish)... he sent out a text message to all parishioners reminding them it's a Holy Day and that we must attend. I really liked it. I would have forgotten and then confessed it, not this ...

The subtitle to this book could be "Sin Makes You Stupid". This bright, young doctor... close to the halfway mark of the book you see him throw away such a beautiful gift, such simple pleasures, all to pursue spicier delights, money, and notoriety. He should have heeded Thomas Gray: Let no...

David Moray, who passed the medical examination with honors, is courting Mary Douglas. Mary is the daughter of a baker in a small town. She was set to be married to Walter Stoddart.. son of the town's clerk (this is somewhere in Scotland... so whatever the significance of that in the late 1940s). Wa...

I read this book a few years back and enjoyed it, but don't remember much about it. Just that "it was a good book" sense. I have read quite a few of AJ Cronin. First being "Keys of the Kingdom", which I loved on first read (prior to my full reversion to the faith)... Then a year ...

Yeah. There is.

It's just the repair work will be more extensive than the initial laying of decking and shingles. Because now I have ceiling drywall that has to be coated with mold on the upper side.

... and they botched it. We've had a very long stretch of hot/humid days. I had been noticing a few little black spots on the ceiling (vaulted ceiling) by the recessed light fixtures. Thinking this was just a small issue due to all of the humidity I was going to clean that ceiling portion. The next ...

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I watched a video talking about how post Vatican 2 the vocation of nun was gutted. The video had a psychologist named William Coulson proudly talking about how he helped to nuns into “people”. The topic of sexual deviancy also came up. How some younger nun began seducing other nuns. Again, much to t...

When I was in high school (mid 1990s) an admired male teacher was caught in bed with a girl who just finished her Junior year. The mom was apparently on vacation all week and "Mr. Tom" came over to her house.... only to have the mom spring into the room catching him with her daughter. Inte...