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L.A. Lessons – The Hugh Hewitt Show

It was inevitable, I suppose.  And yet can one discuss inevitability when it comes to the statistically impossible?  Yesterday, The NBC News projection desk declared the two way runoff for Los Angeles Mayor come fall was to be between incumbent…

Why Pope Leo quoted Tolkien’s Gandalf

It is no surprise that Leo XIV’s new encyclical should be full of quotes from recent popes. What is a surprise is that there’s also a quote from a wise old wizard from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.   The post Why Pope Leo quoted…

Can we humanize our brave new world?

The elimination of suffering will not produce joy. If we seek to be truly free, we must acknowledge our responsibilities to one another. We will flourish to the extent that we all can flourish.  The post Can we…

Beauty in the Power of the Holders

What do you suppose was the favorite site in Rome for the majority of a group of twenty-six college-bound students visiting for the first time? St. Peter’s Basilica and the Vatican Museums? The Colosseum and the Forum? The Trevi Fountain and the…