Huffington Post picks up David Gibson’s in depth Religion News Service story that Catholic hospitals no longer object to the Obama administration’s birth control mandate:
by Maria L. Evans Part 3/3 “The entropy of a system approaches a constant value as the temperature approaches zero. The entropy of a system
Wednesday, July 10, 2013 — Week of Proper 9, Year One [Go to Mission St Clare for an online version of the Daily Office including
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During the month of Ramadan, most Muslims fast from dawn to sunset with no food or water. Before sunrise many Muslims have the Suhur or predawn meal. At sunset families and friends gather for Iftar which is the meal eaten by Muslims to break the fast. Many Muslims begin the meal by eating dates as the Prophet used to do.
What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday. The comfort he got from the hard, cold truth–the filth, the war, the poverty–was that life could be capable of small beauties.
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Over the years, my mother-in-law has developed a “Samaritan Theory.” She says that people who are struggling, are rejected, are not respected, have an immediate empathy for someone they see as a kindred spirit. John’s vulnerability is a portal for their goodness. They know that he will not reject them. They have a ready outlet for the tremendous store of love they carry with them.
Earlier today, we ran an item on the Church of England apologizing to victims of clergy sex abuse. That issue has also been on the
The Atlantic’s Cities blog notes the astonishing change in the geography of poverty in the United States between 1980 and 2010. Emily Badger writes: