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Governor Charlie Baker should act now to end the lockdown in many Massachusetts counties and towns — despite the public health officials and experts who predict a flood of deaths should businesses be allowed to reopen. Some of these are the same experts whose previous models were wildly inaccurate, predicting more
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Christians commemorate the suffering and death of Jesus on Good Friday, which Christians believe attains redemption for the sins of mankind and makes it possible for human beings to go to Heaven. It is at once the saddest and most hope-filled day of the year. Sad because of the torture
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Within weeks, the Coronavirus shutdown will draw to its inevitable conclusion. Life will settle into a new normal. In the long run, very likely our lives will change modestly. Perhaps we'll maintain a modified "social distance," becoming more like the Victorians and less like modern "
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Heather Mac Donald's The War on Cops, written in 2016, is a first-class book that decisively refutes the frequently heard claim that America's entire criminal justice system is "racist." Many of the candidates in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary debates made this charge a
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There are approximately 130 million full-time employees in the United States. Today, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on Fox News said that 50 percent of all American employees work in small businesses. This equates to about 65 million citizens. So including their families, this means perhaps 150 million people
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Following up on my suggestion of small church services through online signup to get around coronavirus restrictions, a reader suggested outdoor Masses. That got me to thinking of what Irish Catholics did during penal times. Mass was illegal and persecuted in Ireland from around the 1650s to the 1750s, as
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Let's agree that the powers-that-be – the governor, the archbishop, ministers, public health officials – are trying to do what they think is best. They want to limit the spread of coronavirus so fewer people get sick and fewer people die. When it comes to stopping access to religious services,
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Iona College, a Catholic school in New Rochelle, New York, has just hired scandal-ridden Rick Pitino as its new basketball coach. Pitino, fired by Louisville in 2017 amid allegations of multiple recruiting violations, testified in open court in 2010 that he paid $3,000 to a woman he'd
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