So wowsers, it’s been forever since I did one of these posts. I’m in awe of those who can keep to a schedule. Be it Melifluous Mondays, Wacky Wednesdays, or Thankful Thursdays – whatever your schedule, if you can stick to it, you are to be commended. For my part, I’ll just keep mixing it up, and join in whenever I can! 🙂
Off we go! Today’s quick takes offer Fortnight for Freedom links for your perusal.
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Feast of Sts. Thomas More and John Cardinal Fisher
This article about two great saints was posted a year ago, and is ever more relevant as we look to their example in our time as persecution of the Church increases.
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Review by Brandon Vogt:
True Freedom: On Protecting Human Dignity and Religious Freedom – by Cardinal Timothy Dolan
Brandon Vogt’s book reviews always make me want to hit the one-click button at Amazon.com
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Garvey: Six Proofs that Our Religious Liberty Is Threatened
The Catholic University of America President John Garvey addressed the
General Assembly of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
in Atlanta, Ga., last week
and offered six reasons to believe that
religious liberty is under attack.
Garvey compared the current situation with regard to religious liberty in the U.S.
to that of Tudor England,
a time and place synonymous with religious persecution.
“We are not the kind of violent and intolerant society Tudor England was,” he said.
“But in recent years the landscape of religious freedom has changed.
Its purview has narrowed considerably.
Let me give six examples.”
(Read more…)
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Myth-Busting the Mandate Debate
From the “War on Women” to “a Catholics-only fight”—
coverage of the HHS controversy is rife with distortions and misinformation.
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How to Protect Your Religious Freedom with One Simple Action a Day
but don’t know where to start?
(along with a whole lot of other people who have joined them).
Here are 14 things they put together that you can do
– one per day –
that will each take only a few minutes.
Make it a personal goal over this Fortnight to support the cause
by following these simple steps:
(Read more…)
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Fortnight of Films Celebrate Religious Liberty
(Read more…)
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And now, for something
completely different.
I found the website Sourdough Companion and looked it over.
And lo! I was inspired!
Again!
As I always am by posts from extremely smart women who whip up starters and keep them going and bake beauteous loaves from the dough.
And, though daunted by the science of it all
(I’m so much more the artist than the scientist in my domestic pursuits)
since I was inspired,
and furthermore since my husband keeps asking for it,
I decided to follow the directions for a Starter, From Scratch.
This is day 1.
Pray it grows well!
