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> According to CBS' “60 Minutes” a key aspect of Dan Brown's “The Da Vinci Code” is a hoax. That's right, the Priory Of Sion doesn't really exist, or at least it didn't exist before the middle of the 20th century.

> Despite the wall-to-wall coverage of the damage from Hurricane Katrina, nearly one-third of young Americans [ages 18-24] recently polled couldn't locate Louisiana on a map and nearly half were unable to identify Mississippi. Link [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060503/ap_on_re_us/where_s_

Finally, a Catholic cleric who doesn't think every person who opposes mass asylum is being a bad Christian. Fr. Jonathan Morris at Fox Central [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,193783,00.html]. The man even uses common sense and doesn't denigrate the spiritual life

This week's Our Sunday Visitor has a great focus piece about indebtedness. Among other things, it mentioned this great website [http://www.ihatedebt.com/], which contains all sorts of debt information and analysis from a Christian perspective. I really liked the snapshot of our country's current

The Occident doesn't believe in the devil anymore. Or if it does believe in him, it doesn't fear him. You might say the devil and his power to inflict suffering are grossly under-appreciated in the West today. Yet though the devil is under-appreciated, he's

> The Patriotic Association, the state-controlled Church in China, has ignored the Holy See's wishes and ordained a new bishop, the BBC reported. . . . > The Holy See had called for a delay in the appointment over concerns the bishop is inexperienced and too closely aligned with China'

B16 had some words yesterday [http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=6604] that hit pretty close to my thoughts about the childless and near-childless: > The Pope opined that “the lack of such creative and forward-looking love is the reason why many couples today choose not to marry, why

On Monday, I mentioned a claim that shaving cream is a racket [https://thedailyeudemon.com/4429/] and that a man just needs warm water, after he first toughens up his skin a bit. Well, I put my face on the line all week, and the results are in: the claim

More great weather. It's been a stunning spring so far. But if the recent pattern holds, it means we're heading for a dismal late spring or summer. Consider: We got hit real hard with snow and cold in November and December. Come January, things got incredibly