His response: (essentially)  “huh, wha… that’s a bad thing”? 

GEORGIA – The Archbishop of Atlanta’s Roman Catholic Diocese has been put on the defensive after it was revealed he built a multimillion dollar mansion for himself using church funds.

Archbishop Wilton Gregory’s $2.2million, 6,000-plus square foot palace has become a point of contention among parishioners saying it diverges from the example set by Pope Francis to live humbly.
‘They had an opportunity to be heroes, and I think it’s sad they they made a choice that is going to cause a lot of friction,’ parishioners Marci Maurer-Nunnery told CBS Atlanta.
The manse was built on land donated by the estate of an heir to the fortune earned by the author of Gone With The Wind, according to reports. (more…)

I saw this last night and sat amazed at how CNN’s Gary Tuchman was able to keep it together while hearing and sharing this story.   (Kleenex alert)

Prayers for all of those affected families.

Today at the Supreme Court the justices heard the case of Hobby Lobby VS. Obamacare.
Both sides organized public support.   However, the pictures and signs from the left-wing Democrats are, well, actually quite funny. They are always such bitter, angry and unhappy people. They haz sad.

Sign from Planned Parenthood rally attendant. More to come. pic.twitter.com/AY7gxNliZr

— Concerned Women for America LAC (@CWforA) March 25, 2014

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It’s important, as you absorb this story, to understand the structural difference in England vs. the U.S. around the terms “public” and “private” schools.   Publically funded schools are more difficult to attend and hold a higher academic standing.   Students compete to get into the best public secondary schools;  intelligence tests, aptitude batteries and personal interviews are needed to gain entry to the higher academic public schools.

ENGLAND – The Birmingham school at the center of an alleged campaign of “Islamisation” by Muslim radicals is to be placed in “special measures” by the Government’s education watchdog in a move that could see its head teacher and governors removed.
Park View, previously rated “outstanding” by Ofsted, will be downgraded to “inadequate”, the lowest possible score, in the category of leadership and management, senior education sources said.
This enables Ofsted to place the school in special measures, allowing the watchdog, if it wishes, to remove the school’s entire leadership. (more…)

Boundless Joy !

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I join the March for Life in Washington with my prayers. May God help us respect all life, especially the most vulnerable

— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) January 22, 2014

h/t Brent Bozell, freedom Warrior at NewsBusters:

You’re Right to Choose This Movie

“…Inspired by the real-life story of Kathy DiFiore, the founder of Several Sources Shelters, writer and director Ronald Krauss wrote his original screenplay while spending a year in a shelter for pregnant teens, and based it on the lives of several of the shelter mothers.

Krauss wasn’t the only one who was inspired. Brendan Fraser asked to be in the movie after reading the script and spent time in the shelters with the mothers and the babies. On the last day of shooting, Krauss said Fraser “quietly told Kathy that he was donating his salary to the shelter, so he actually did the movie for nothing. It was a complete surprise to all of us.”

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HatTip iOTW – A family decided to try and use the power of thousands of brains to help solve the riddle of a series of index cards that were left behind by a grandmother who died of cancer.

The cards looked like a random series of letters that probably had a cipher only known to the departed. In 15 minutes a reader on Metafilter figured it out and began deciphering different passages.

To See The Crowdsourcing Codebreakers – GO HERE  (you too just might rejoice)