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“Sisterhood” May be Reality-TV for Reality-TV Haters

Maybe. When it was announced that Lifetime network would be airing a “reality” series chronicling five young women as they “discerned” whether or not they have religious vocations, I was as skeptical...

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Hawaiian Folk Music, Crusades and Columns

Last night, my husband got home from an outing and watched The Descendents, starring George Clooney. Not really a Clooney fan, but he was very good, and the movie was engrossing. Hubby and I both...

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Muppets Mayhem is Misdirection

Honestly, I haven’t been paying much attention. I mean, I love the Muppets but once I stopped having to read bedtime stories in Elmo’s voice to the kids, Muppet headlines stopped resonating (although...

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Audi: Worst Christmas Commercial Ever?

The annoying Christmas commercials began way too early this year, and repeated viewings have already blurred their edges, but there is one commercial in particular that fries my beans every time it...

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What do you think is the best pop song ever?

A few folks registered surprise that I am a fan of Sly and the Family Stone. Well, you can blame Glenn Reynolds for my running Sly — he slapped the band up on his Facebook page, first — but the truth...

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Wyoming Catholic: A Most Unusual College

Wyoming Catholic College likes to conduct some of its classes in the great outdoors. In Wyoming. And it seems to be exactly the sort of row-against-the-tide school I would have loved to have sent my...

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Dick Clark Dies: Cue Boomer Nostalgia

My elder siblings are all much older than I, and they grew up with Dick Clark. There is a famous family story about a squabble that developed between my sister — who came home from school ready to...

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“I don’t have to think; Hollywood does it for me!”

And here is what Hollywood tells me to think: Catholics who take their church seriously are foolish, hypocritical and failures in love. Normally, since there is a movie trailer involved, I’d just send...

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Ryan’s Budget, Catholics and Colbert – UPDATED

When a friend of mine sent this clip from the Colbert Report — a chat between Steven Colbert and Georgetown’s Father Thomas Reese on why Paul Ryan’s budget bothers Catholics — I expected to like it. I...

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Are Catholics Tiring of Apologizing to the Culture?

I think so. Joanne McPortland continues to say the stuff I want to say but so much better than I can say it: Conservative critics, especially of academia, have made much over the years of the Tyranny...

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