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  Sigh Away Your silence weeps upon the floor, the day is crawling slowly; I hear it through my shuttered door and I am rendered lowly. We n...

 Today is the feast of St. Hildegard von Bingen, Doctor of the Church. Two interpretations of one of her most popular songs today: O virtus ...

 * Stuart Richie, Never trust a scientist , looks at scandals in the field of psychology * Paul Silva, Jr., A Conceptual Analysis of Glory ...

 Today is the feast of St. Cyprian of Carthage, Martyr. From his treatise on patience : Charity is the bond of brotherhood, the foundation o...

 The comedian Norm MacDonald died today of cancer, so it seems appropriate to post his most famous (and in many ways his most Normish) joke:...

Crux Antarcticus by John Holland   “The cross of the south is a timepiece that advances very regularly about four minutes a day -- how often...

I must not, however, omit to remind you that this term in modern phraseology has fallen very far below its primary meaning, and is often so ...