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Footnote 65: Charlie Van Heck, RIP

https://media.blubrry.com/bellarmineforumfootnote/bellarmineforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/BF-Footnote-65-Charlie-031314-df.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadCharlie Van Hecke, whose voice has introduced this program for the past 18 months, has gone to his eternal reward. May he rest in peace.

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Congratulations to the Bellarmine Forum’s John B. Manos!

Read the good news here! Ad multos annos!

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Footnote 64: Tyranny

https://media.blubrry.com/bellarmineforumfootnote/bellarmineforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/BF-Footnote-64-tyranny-021314-df.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadFather James Schall, S.J., reflects on democracies, good and bad.

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A close-up of a skull with glasses and text listing seven things that the Lord hates, including haughty eyes, lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood. The text is from a Catholic perspective, emphasizing moral teachings.  Six things there are, which the Lord hateth, and the seventh His soul detesteth: 1) Haughty eyes, 2) a lying tongue, 3) hands that shed innocent blood, 4) A heart that deviseth wicked plots, 5) feet that are swift to run into mischief, 6) A deceitful witness that uttereth lies, and 7) him that soweth discord among brethren.

Defending CCHD: Alinskyian organizing is intrinsic to the Catholic Campaign for Human Development vision

After three years of intense scrutiny into problematic Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) grants, the American Life League and other concerned groups gave the beleaguered “charity” some space to reorganize. CCHD’s 2013 collection came and went with hardly a peep from its critics and the next year of grants was announced unchallenged. CCHD allies,…

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From Under the Rubble…Race Hustlers Target Paul Ryan

It’s an election year, and liberal pundits complain of listlessness, confusion, cowardice and more in their ranks. Not to worry, says Obama aide Dan Pfeiffer. He tells Meet the Press that the party will do fine this November – if Democrats turn out. But how to make sure they do, when their midterm turnout is…

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Father Hardon on St. Joseph: the Secret of True Love

On this solemn feast of St. Joseph, it is good to have a reminder of just who the saint really is. What follows is a short snippet from a lecture by Fr. John Hardon: Saint Joseph deserves our admiration for his other virtues, but, he is to be especially imitated in his love for Jesus and…

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From Under the Rubble…Spring Cleaning

From the fog of a long, hard winter, questions come stumbling out of the cold. First: does the U.S. really support democracy? Take Ukraine. For a decade and more, the United States has advocated – and even agitated – for democratic elections there. And yet, as so often occurs when the Goddess of Democracy winks,…

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A Dehumanized Form of Development

The presumed frontrunner to serve as the next President of the United States recently delivered the keynote address to the UN where she characterized abortion as essential to “human development.” Per CNN: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used a Friday speech at the United Nations to tie women’s reproductive rights with the broader goal…

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From Under the Rubble…The Leviathan Goes Rogue

On the Sunday morning shows last week, Secretary of State John Kerry denounced Russia’s “invasion” of Ukraine as a “brazen act of aggression.” Whatever that says about the Ukraine, Kerry’s highly-charged prose could equally describe the federal government’s manifest invasions of privacy here at home, its “brazen acts of aggression” against personal liberty, and its…

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Ash Wednesday–Station at S. Sabina

The traditional devotion of the Roman Lenten Stations (or the Stational Churches of Rome), allows us to unite our hearts and minds in our Lenten devotions with the Church of Rome as we spiritually visit the ancient churches and basilicas of the City (Stationalium Ecclesiarum Urbis visitatio). For your devotional life this Lent, consider making…

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