The blog is shutting down for the long Independence Day weekend. (Your first clue is the blog banner which appeared earlier this week.) 

Everyone enjoy the break.  Meanwhile, two reminders…

1) Our freedoms, which we celebrate this Sunday always must come at a cost. My US Army son is in Kuwait this weekend awaiting deployment to Iraq.  Please keep him and all those who serve our country in your prayers this weekend.

2) Almost fifteen years ago, when John Paul II visited Baltimore, he taught that Surely it is important for America that the moral truths which make freedom possible should be passed on to each new generation. Every generation of Americans needs to know that freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.