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The Politics of Envy . . .and Silence

 Why are the Bishops silent? On the stump, politicians who would be President speak of the “politics of envy” and “class warfare.” Mormon Mitt and conspicuously Catholic Rick and Newt want the hurting poor to get over their “envy” of

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Posted in Business and Justice, Catholics and Culture, Christian Politicians, Devout Catholic Policians, Fighting Poverty, I BLOG, Justice, Politics and Religion, Religion and Political Discourse, Uncategorized, US Bishops, Workers' Rights

From Yule Log to Bûche de Noel

2011: I decided that this was the year to bake and ice a Yule Log. I had watched my mother, the cake artist, do it many times but had never tried making one myself. For starters, I wasn’t sure that

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Posted in Catholic, Christian Politicians, I BLOG, Lay Catholics, Missal Changes, Uncategorized, US Bishops

Make that leap, Bill Maher.

Bill Maher makes me laugh. And cry. His radical simplification of complex issues is both laugh-out-loud funny — and gross. He pierces through the gullibility of people who let themselves be instruments of the self-interest of the rich and powerful

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Posted in Christian Politicians, Faith, I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Proofs for God, Stand up Comedy, Uncategorized

Let Love Prevail

Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.   John 1:4-8 Connie Florez is the founder and CEO of Hula Girl Productions and the director/producer of several award-winning films that perpetuate the stories of the past through

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Posted in Catholics and Culture, Christian Politicians, Equality and Faith, Family and Friends, I BLOG, LGBT Catholics Hawaii, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized

Pro-Life? Then Advocate for Gun Control

Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. Saturday January 8 of this new and already blood-stained year, was not a day of peace. A regular reader of this blog, Kaysie McAlister alerted me to

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Posted in Christian Politicians, Churches, Civic Square, Gun Control, I BLOG, Peace, Politics and Religion, Pro-Life, Religion and Political Discourse