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The Catholic Civil Warrior - Patrick J Reilly, president of the Cardinal Newman Society
He's the most influential, confrontational, controversial Irish Catholic you’ve never heard of.
He makes Maureen Dowd of The New York Times angry. He makes Bill Donohue of the Catholic League stand up and cheer. And each and every May he reignites what some have come to call the “civil war” in the American Catholic Church.
Rick Santorum (
New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan - much power but little glory
“Could Cardinal Dolan Become Pope?”
The question jumped out at me from the CBS News website and made me chuckle for several reasons.
Predictions for a wild 2012 - what the news could hold month by month
It's that time of year again. We can look back on another miserable year and, against all evidence to the contrary, hope for better things. Herewith, some predictions for the year to come.
JANUARY: Since no one seemed to care when New York City Fire Department big wigs referred to Irishmen as “drunks,” budget crunchers devise a novel way to save money during tough fiscal times -- get rid of the Irish!
Ron Paul.
Here comes a religious hurricane - the 9/11 Memorial
No, they are not angry at the New York mayor’s handling of Hurricane Irene.
It is a religious conflict revolving around 9/11 which has many upset, and even calling upon the memory of 9/11’s first official victim, the sainted Irish American Franciscan Father Mychal Judge.
Some must-see Irish TV - ‘Whitey’ Bulger and Sarah Michelle Gellar’s ‘Ringer’ - VIDEO
There is word out of Hollywood that an acclaimed sitcom writer has sold an idea for a TV sitcom to Twentieth Century Fox. The premise?
Imagine you were living right next door to Whitey Bulger, South Boston killer extraordinaire, and didn’t know it.
‘Irishmen Who Are Drunks’ - a reaction to FDNY's discriminatory remarks
As the 10th anniversary of 9/11 looms, you see many stories these days about firefighters and their families, and how they are coping with the loss of loved ones and the passage of time since that terrible day.
But that’s not all you will hear about the FDNY these days. For the past several weeks, Brooklyn Federal Court has been the setting for a federal discrimination trial against the New York City fire department.
The feds are looking into allegations that the FDNY discriminates against minority firefighters. So it is interesting that in this setting, one of the most blatantly anti-Irish statements I’ve ever heard was not only muttered, but entered into the public record.
Make us proud Denis Leary - 10 years after 9/11 the finale of "Rescue Me" - VIDEO
It is also believed that 10 years ago this week, 9/11 hijacker Mohammad Atta flew off to Spain to meet with fellow terrorist Ramzi bin al-Shibh, where they were finalizing plans for an attack that would change the course of world history, and to this day weighs upon thousands and thousand of families from Washington, D.C. to Rockaway Beach.
It is a question that cannot be asked too many times -- has it really been nearly 10 years?
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