Posted in Joy on Feb 8th, 2013
In a letter written from New Orleans, Mark Twain declared that during Carnival, …all good Catholics eat and drink freely of what they please, and, in fact, do what they please, in order that they may be the better able to keep sober and quiet during the coming fast. It has been said that a [...]
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Posted in Creation, Justice on Oct 21st, 2008
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, a human life is worth $900,000 less than it used to be. An MSNBC article from July 10 puts it this way: Though it may seem like a harmless bureaucratic recalculation, the devaluation has real consequences. When drawing up regulations, government agencies put a value on human life and [...]
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