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  • On Sloth and the Noonday Devil

    06/10/2013 3:52:59 AM PDT · by markomalley · 9 replies
    Archdiocese of Washington ^ | 6/9/2013 | Msgr. Charles Pope
    One of the more misunderstood of the deadly sins is sloth. In the wider culture sloth is often equated simply with laziness.But sloth has a lot more subtleties than simple laziness. In fact, sloth can sometimes manifest as workaholism and other frantic worldly activities and busyness.This is because sloth is most fundamentally defined as a “sorrow or aversion to the good things that God offers” such as a moral life, and deeper spiritual fruitfulness etc. There are some who find such things unappealing, and instead of joyfully accepting these gifts, they are sorrowful toward them or averse. One way to...
  • Case Yields Chilling Signs of Domestic Terror Plot

    01/07/2004 11:23:40 AM PST · by railsplitter · 23 replies · 305+ views
    Yahoo! News / Los Angeles Times ^ | Wed Jan 7, 9:35 AM ET | Scott Gold
    HOUSTON — One evening two winters ago, a man in Staten Island, N.Y., absent-mindedly flipped through his mail. Inside one envelope was a stack of fake documents, including United Nations (news - web sites) and Defense Department identification cards, and a note: "We would hate to have this fall into the wrong hands."