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July 22, 2013

A request for prayers

One of the challenges of writing my Catholic Review column is that it is published every other week. Events that have yet transpired as I’m writing may have already happened by the time you read this column. As an old cartoon character used to say, “What a revoltin’ development!”
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July 22, 2013

Let’s go fly a kite

Every summer when we go to the beach, we bring along a cheap kite, and John skillfully puts it into the sky.There are always kite flyers who have cooler, more expensive kites. I even heard this year that you can buy a kite with LED lights on it, designed to
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July 21, 2013

The beach is where the wild things are

All year I answer two questions again and again.“When will it be Christmas?” and “When are we going to the beach?”Well, we’ve been home from our annual trip for about 24 hours. And our boys—and their parents—are already talking about next year.Our trip this summer was special because our group
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July 20, 2013

Bell tower of Mount St. Mary’s historic Immaculate Conception chapel struck by lightning

UPDATED: The bell tower of the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg was struck by lightning July 19, which resulted in a fire.
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July 20, 2013

Pay no attention to what’s underneath the bed

This was our third summer renting the same beach house for our family vacation. So when we were moving into the house last Saturday, I wasn’t expecting any surprises.I headed into the bedroom John and I would be sharing and looked at the beds. If I moved them just a
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July 19, 2013

7 quick takes Friday (Vol. 20)

— 1 —Remember the Slinky? Our boys acquired their first ones today, though theirs are knock-offs called plastic rainbow magic springs. I thought I knew how to work one, but my first attempts to get them to walk down the steps were failures. Leo was the one who figured it
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July 18, 2013

Venturing to the Holy Land

we’re inviting you – faithful foodies – to an experience of the Holy Land. “Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.”
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July 18, 2013

Remembering a great-grandma

As the saying goes, “the difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”
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July 18, 2013

A peachy recipe for a peachy season

I can’t remember the last time I baked this Baltimore-style peach cake recipe, but this year I couldn’t wait for local peaches to be ripe so I could make it. These peaches were a little shy of being ripe, but the cake still turned out well.My sister Treasa and I
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July 18, 2013

Martha, Mary Put Focus on ‘The Better Part’

Is there any doubt that we are creatures of anxiety? This weekend's Gospel reading from Luke finds Martha and Mary greeting Jesus for a visit. We know the story. Martha rushes around preparing food and drink to serve Jesus, while her sister Mary seemingly does nothing, sitting at the feet of Jesus and
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July 17, 2013

The Urban Church

Earlier this week, Bishop Denis J. Madden, whose vicariate includes Baltimore City, and Spiritan Father Evod Shao, pastor of St. Edward Church in West Baltimore, led a prayer walk through the violent streets surrounding the parish.
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July 17, 2013

The tale of a girl and her rats

When my niece—we’ll call her Eileen—was 3, she decided she wanted a pet rat.Her parents, thinking that she would surely outgrow this atypical idea for a preschooler, told her she had to wait until she was 8. That day came, however. When Eileen turned 8, she reminded her parents of
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