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Catholic Neighborhoods

The same Atlantic article mentioned previously [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200601/primarysources] notes as an aside that Catholics are likelier to attend mass if they live in a heavily Catholic neighborhood, and that such neighborhoods have better economic and social indicators, including higher income and education levels and lower

Taking Revenge on Marx

> Pogroms and purges of Jews are a thing of the past in Russia, but as women scrubbed the bloodstained floors of Moscow's Chabad Bronnaya synagogue on Thursday, a day after a man burst in and stabbed worshippers, alarm spread over increasingly open anti-Semitism. > Jewish leaders warned

860 Million?

According to Catholic World News [http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=41869], a report says that 860 million children suffer world-wide. That strikes me as awfully high, but I don't know. How many children are there among the world's 6.5 billion? The suffering,

The Deluge

Mitch Albom discusses the small controversy over the Detroit Pistons' swimsuit calendar [http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060115/OPINION02/601150352/1082] . The calendar doesn't have pictures of Ben Wallace in a Speedo, but rather pictures of the Piston dancing team--the Automotion--in Speedo-like attire.

Anti-Abortion Posters Torn Down

Home of the 1960s Free Speech Movement [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Movement]: > Bay Area abortion-rights activists say a Roman Catholic group's advertisements on hundreds of BART trains and in scores of stations -- attacking the Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade decision and

Catholic Charities Must Fund Contraceptives

A good overview of the NY Court of Appeals decision earlier this week [http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/102/53.0.html] regarding a state law that requires employers' insurance plans to cover prescription contraceptives. Excerpt: > [A] New York appeals court ruled 3-2 in favor of the

Sleeping in Shifts

A novel idea to try to resolve the debacle that is the modern prison system: > With space scarce as the U.S. prison population grows, a top Idaho lawmaker is proposing that inmates share beds by sleeping in shifts, a practice sometimes used by the U.S. military. Link

Killing Girls

> More than 10m female births in India may have been lost to abortion and sex selection in the past 20 years, according to medical research. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4592890.stm] The result is common-sensical: there's a lopsided boy-to-girl ratio. The

Hewitt and Fessio

Hugh Hewitt interviewed Fr. Joseph Fessio. Hewitt's book, Blog, got me blogging on a daily basis. After reading it, though, I suspected Hewitt was an anti-Catholic, possibly a bigoted one, but based on this interview, my fears were misplaced. Bigots are rarely so respectful. Link [http://www.radioblogger.

The 68ers

Even a leftist at a Seattle alternative newspaper decries the Stalinist wannabes who have taken over Europe [http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=25924]: > How did Western Europe come to be ruled by monolithic ideologues? Short answer: the "'68ers," which is what Europeans call those