This spring saw our backyard filled with new life: families of quail scurrying across the grass, baby doves peeking out from the eaves of our patio, and a special surprise: a little killdeer mother, nesting on the ground in a shallow depression in the gravel out near the children's basketball hoop. They were the first to find her, running in breathless one day to report that we had a new tenant. Sure enough, there she sat, seeming both a bit smug and suspicious on her small speckled eggs. My heart sank a bit, worried about her safety so near the children's play area. Her curious choice of a nest was instinctive, I had recently learned. Only weeks before, another killdeer had made a nest recently on our neighbors property - in the rocks right next to their busy driveway. My neighbor, concerned, had researched the birds and told me about these indignant little mothers. We were both amazed at their unusual habits. They always nest on the ground, sometimes taking turns on the eggs with the father. So slight an indentation do they make on the desert ground, and so like stones are the eggs, that they blend into gravel perfectly. It's good camouflage, but still...this one had no idea what she was in for.
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San Luis Potosi Cathedral
With little fanfare and no public knowledge, the archbishop emeritus of Guadalajara and exorcists from all over the country of Mexico gathered in the Cathedral of San Luis Potosi to perform a nation-wide exorcism of the troubled country.
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An Italian magazine broke with common journalistic standards by leaking Pope Francis’ encyclical on climate change on June 15, even though it is embargoed until June 18.
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Shaquille Hairston
What could have been just another crime statistic turned out to be a powerful faith sharing experience when the prayer of a mugging victim sent his attacker fleeing into the night - without the loot!
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“The Devil doesn’t fear austerity
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSAfter Rose O’Donnell and her estranged lesbian partner decided not to go through with the adoption of an unborn baby boy because of a birth defect, the woman carrying the child said she felt like “a dog breeding puppies for Rosie”.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSBrazilian legislators and the general public have had enough of the blasphemous conduct of gay pride parade participants and are advancing new law that will make it a felony to desecrate and/or profane Christian images during their activities.
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“The mind [must be] ever on the alert to discover
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“He is a Christian, a true Christian, who 
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“Obedience is servility only to those who have
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