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Month: June 2007

Real People Who Became Holy & Were Not Plaster Saints

Real People Who Became Holy & Were Not Plaster Saints

We are in Scottsdale where the temperature is perfect and the weather beautiful. We were at mass this morning, Sunday and the priest spoke of a Carmelite nun who said that even though she is in a convent where prayer and meditation is an around the clock activity there are annoyances that come with living with other people. I thought of one of my favorite saints, Theresa of Lisieux, the little flower, who became a saint by the way she…

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Knowing When to Quit

Knowing When to Quit

I was at a professional meeting the other night which included friends I’ve known since I started practicing law. A couple were older then I am, another my age and others a little younger. As I looked around the room from my view point of seventy two years of age I was aware of our aging together as fellow trial lawyers. I remembered an article I had read in the 1991 issue of California Lawyer about Melvin Belli entitled "Lion…

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Flannery O’Connor, Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton & Walker Percy

Flannery O’Connor, Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton & Walker Percy

I’m listening to a book on tape The Life You Save May be Your Own by Paul Elie. It deals with four Catholic writers and literary figures of the mid twentieth century, Flannery O’Connor, Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and Walker Percy. I am familiar with Day and Merton, having read their work and books about them, but not O’Connor or Percy. The book is well written and I am interested in their contribution to literature, religion and intelligent investigation of…

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The Bush White House Speaks with Forked Tongue About Global Warming

The Bush White House Speaks with Forked Tongue About Global Warming

George Bush and his administration have continuously denied global warming even existed until the evidence was so overwhelming it became their pink elephant in the room. The Bush Administration went as far as revising scientific reports and muzzling scientists from talking about the subject, after first appointing agency heads whose job was to silence any talk about the problem. (See 4/18/07) Now, forced by world wide concern and overwhelming evidence Mr. Bush does a 180 degree turn in order to…

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