Faith and Family Live! (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Rebecca Teti: | I don’t know why the following items came across my desktop today. But as everyone can use freebies now and again, I pass them along (not vouching for content!). Here are 20 Places to Watch Free Movies on the ‘net. Do you know about Swap a DVD, brought to you by the same folks who run Paperback Swap …
Faith and Family Live! (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Rebecca Teti: | Visceral Fat from uabnews on Vimeo. 80 minutes of exercise a week may not be enough to make you slender, but it is probably enough to keep visceral fat—the kind that is a major contributor to Type 2 Diabetes and heart disease—at bay. What’s also good news is that to keep your internal organs (but, alas, not your …
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Rebecca Teti: | Twenty years ago today, the Berlin Wall came down. Follow this link to watch the late Peter Jennings interrupting programming to break the news. My father more or less dedicated his life to bringing down Communism, so of course our family followed such things with marked interest. I remember very clearly a summer Saturday morning when Dad was …
Faith and Family Live! (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Rebecca Teti: | I have managed to miss the Jon & Kate Plus Eight phenomenon, but Helen Alvare has a very nice reflection on what their sad story reveals about our divorce laws. Read it here.
Faith and Family Live! (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Rebecca Teti: | In light of Fr. Z’s suggestion that we dedicate today to praying for the souls of departed priests, I thought I’d highlight a portion of the Holy Father’s Angelus Address last Sunday. (The Pope did his part this morning, celebrating a Mass for cardinals & bishops who have died in the past year.) “Tomorrow we will observe the …
Faith and Family Live! (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Rebecca Teti: | Upwards of 80% of children with Down syndrome are aborted in this country. Archbishop Chaput has written an eloquent essay about what that means for our culture. I just wanted to highlight a passage he writes about the several friends he has who are parents of children with different kinds of genetic disorders—just because I thought it was …
