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Windows XP is officially old
Microsoft’s support for Windows XP Home Edition has ended, only eight years after release. You can still pay for support for another five years, but nothing from Microsoft. Who actually asks Microsoft for support anyhow? For those who upgraded to Vista, you have until 2012 to jump over to Windows 7… or 8… or whatever…
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Review – Christian Martyrs for a Muslim People
Over Spring Break, I read Fr. Martin McGee, OSB‘s latest book, Christian Martyrs for a Muslim People, published by Paulist Press. This is a story of nineteen Catholic martyrs who died, for being Catholic, while serving a virtually completely Muslim population in Algeria. While the land that is now Algeria was once a booming Catholic…
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New NYC Archbishop Dolan Mentioned Hecker
Newly-installed Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York mentioned Servant of God Issac Hecker in his opening homily today. Rocco has the full-text on his website.
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There is a Great Silence
Today is Holy Saturday. The day Jesus spent in the tomb. For a reflection today, I repost what I wrote in March 2005 in this blog: Today is Holy Saturday. The Church throughout the whole world is silent today. Most all sacramental functions are forbidden- even Holy Communion may only be given as Viaticum. The…
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Rental Review – Traitor (2008)
Last week, we watched Traitor (imdb, amazon.com), a Jeffrey Nachmanoff film featuring Don Cheadle (The Oceans 11 series, Hotel Rwanda). The film follows the story of Samir Horn, a defected American solider, devout Muslim, as he begins more involved with a terrorist cell planning an attack on the United States and the government agents trying…
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No, Thank You
Dead man’s sperm to be taken by court order On the Austin American-Statesman website, there’s a story about a man, age 20, who was killed over the weekend whose mother has won a court order requiring sperm to be taken from the deceased to be used with a surrogate mother for a future child. While…