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‘Tis the season for weddings, and chances are the next several weeks will find many of us sitting in a lovely venue, decked in our best, watching a man and a woman pledge themselves to one another for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health. The good news is that
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“Don’t get married until your ‘brain is fully developed’ – after 25.” “Don’t get married until you ‘travel the world.’” “Don’t get married until you get a master’s degree, then a PhD, then study abroad.” “Don’t get married until you date around and ‘figure out what you want.’” “Don’t get married until you ‘find
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Habemus papam! We have a pope! Like other Catholics in the U.S. and around the world, I was stunned that the conclave of cardinals assembled in the Sistine Chapel on May 8 chose American Robert Prevost to become the next pope. For years, we’d heard that no American, at least in the foreseeable future, would
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President Donald Trump unleashed another unorthodox idea the other day by floating the concept of tariffs on movies not made in America. Those in the movie industry “are downright apoplectic,” CNN reported, concerned that such an initiative will tank their business. I’m not sure what to make of this idea yet, as I can see
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It’s the National Day of Prayer, that one day a year that we seriously take a few minutes (or maybe not even that) to say a prayer that our nation will turn back to God and get serious about living right. It’s a beautiful and good tradition – with leaders dating all the way back
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President Donald Trump is reportedly considering offering $5,000 “baby bonuses” to first-time moms. That sum would barely cover an epidural in most American hospitals; still, monetary benefits like this may be a step in the right direction for correcting the birth dearth in this country. Raising children in an economy where both parents are often
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