Archive for January, 2007

Dora

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

I never thought I would be doing this. I am writing a post to defend Dora.
A friend doesn’t like Dora because we are in an “English-speaking country”. Yes, and from its beginning, America has been largely made up of people from countries where people do not speak English. There are millions of people here in the USA who speak Spanish, others Asian languages, and many more. Through the centuries my family has spoken German and Luke’s family spoke Polish and a few other languages. As Luke says, “Not to mention that English is one of the hardest languages to learn.” (more…)

Snowed In

Monday, January 15th, 2007

On Saturday I really enjoyed being snowed in. I spread birdseed all over our ground floor porch, which is sheltered by the two apartments’ decks above it, and on the grass around the railing. Then I put hot water and a bit of food on the porch railing.
That night, though, I called and received an order for some of my homemade good food from a woman we would have seen at Holy Mass yesterday in Topeka. When I looked at the weather forecast I realized there was no way we could drive to Holy Mass. We didn’t, either – we stayed home and inside all day Saturday and Sunday, except when I joyfully went out in the sleet yesterday afternoon to get the mail.

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Christians and communism

Sunday, January 14th, 2007

Nice article on TFP: here

The Jews

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007

I just finished Leon de Poncins’ “Judaism and the Vatican: An Attempt at Spiritual Subversion” about the Jews’ role in Vatican II. Here are two quotes that I like, from pages 58 and 59, by Dr. A. Roudinesco in his book “Le Malheur d’Israel”:

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