Bedtime

1. Having regular bedtimes during early childhood is an important influence on children’s behavior. (doi: 10.1542/peds.2013-1906) (10/15/13)

Dry Eye Disease

1. "High pain sensitivity and low pain tolerance are associated with symptoms of DED [dry eye disease]..." JAMA Ophthalmol. 2013;131(10):1304-1308. doi:10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2013.4399. (10/11/13)

Polyphenols

1. It is the first time that a scientific study associates high polyphenols intake with a 30% reduction in mortality in older adults.ScienceNews (10/10/13)

Wine

1. "Moderate consumption of wine may reduce the incidence of depression, while heavy drinkers seem to be at higher risk."  BMC Medicine 2013, 11:192 doi:10.1186/1741-7015-11-192 (8/30/13)
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Irresistible Grace

1. Thinking that God forces Himself on us with "irresistible grace" is like thinking that rape is an expression of love. (8/22/13)

Four Causes

St. Peter's List: Material, Formal, Efficient and Final: 11 Thoughts on the Four Causes:

'via Blog this'

Memory

1. There are two kinds of memory: implicit, a form of long-term memory not requiring conscious thought and expressed by means other than words; and explicit, another kind of long-term memory formed consciously that can be described in words. Science Daily  8/8/13

Omnipotence

1. The doctrine of God's omnipotence has two distinct interpretations that can cause much confusion if they are not understood. The first interpretation of  God's omnipotence is that God can do anything without any restriction. The second is that God's omnipotence is only one of the many attributes of God and therefore God can only do anything within the restrictions of His other attributes. An example that can help explain the different interpretations is found in the often asked question "Can God make a square circle?". Holders of the first interpretation of God's omnipotence would say "yes'" while holders of the second interpretation of God's omnipotence would say "no" because it would contradict God's attribute of being the Logos. The Bible takes the second interpretation of God's omnipotence as it tells us that there are things that God can not do. For example, Titus 1:2 tells us that God can not lie. If God could lie than it would contradict His attribute of being Truth. (7/26/13)

Diverticulosis

1. "In this large, prospective study of men without known diverticular disease, nut, corn, and popcorn consumption did not increase the risk of diverticulosis or diverticular complications. The recommendation to avoid these foods to prevent diverticular complications should be reconsidered."  JAMA 2008 (6/27/13)

Breast Feeding

1. "Breast feeding increased the odds of upward social mobility and decreased the odds of downward mobility."  Arch Dis Child doi:10.1136/archdischild-2012-303199 (6/25/13)

Hands Free

1. "In a 2006 study, Strayer first showed talking on a hands-free cell phone was just as distracting as using a hand-held phone while driving." ScienceDaily (6/12/13)

Mammogram

1. "Mortality statistics do not show an effect of mammographic screening on population-based breast cancer mortality in England." J R Soc Med June 2013 vol. 106 no. 6 234-242 (6/11/13)

Obsession

1. The problem with people who suffer from an obsession is not the having an obsession itself. We become obsessed because we were made to become obsessed. The problem with people who suffer from an obsession is that they became obsessed with the wrong thing. (6/6/13)
2. Many of the problems that people suffer from are really just obsessions in the wrong things:(6/6/13)
1. Drug addiction- obsession in using drugs (6/6/13)
2. .Alcoholisms- obsession in drinking alcohol. (6/6/13)
3. Obesity- obsession in eating (6/6/13)
4. Hoarding- obsession in junk (6/6/13)
5. Stalking – obsession in a particular person (6/6/13)
6. Greed – obsession in money/possessions (6/6/13)
7. Anorexia- obsession in being thin (6/6/13)
8. Laziness – obsession in being comfortable (6/6/13)
9. Sexual addiction – obsession in having sex (6/6/13)
10. Workaholics- obsession in work (6/6/13)
11. Arrogance – obsession in self (6/6/13)
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Punishment

1. We are not punished for our evil. We are punished by our evil. -modification of saying of Buda. (6/6/13)

Fertility

World Total Fertility Rate, 1960-2010 (5/21/13)

Nonsense

1. Nonsense continues to be nonsense even when an intellectual says it. (5/16/13)

Medicaid

This randomized, controlled study showed that Medicaid coverage generated no significant improvements in measured physical health outcomes in the first 2 years, but it did increase use of health care services, NEJM (5/14/13)

Pet

1. "Pet ownership, particularly dog ownership, is probably associated with a decreased risk of heart disease," CIR.0b013e31829201e1  (5/13/13)

Evangelism

“Preach the Gospel at all times, if necessary use words.” - St. Francis of Assisi (5/13/13)

Work

"dignity is not found in power, money, or culture. But in work, in honest work" - Pope Francis (5/10/13)

Faith

1. "In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.” - Blaise Pascal (5/9/13)
2. All knowledge is ultimately based on faith. The scientist bases his knowledge on observation, however before he can base his knowledge on observation he must have faith that his observations are real. He can not observe that his observations are real; that would be circular reasoning. The mathematician bases her knowledge on logic, however before she can base her knowledge on logic she must have faith that logic is true. She can not prove logic is true using logic; that would be circular reasoning. (6/4/13)

Complaining

“[A Christian] who constantly complains, fails to be a good Christian: they become Mr. or Mrs. Whiner, no? Because they always complain about everything, right?” ~Pope Francis, May 7, 2013 (5/8/13)

Religious Schools

"Students in religious schools enjoy a significant academic advantage over their
counterparts in traditional public schools and charter schools" - CAPE Outlook (5/2/13)

Bible Interpretation

1. "The Bible is its own interpreter." - Harold Camping (The President of Family Radio who predicted the Rapture would take place on May 21, 201, and than that the end of the world would take place on October 21, 2011.) (5/2/13)
1. My interpretation of Mr. Camping's statement is "Me interpreting the Bible by myself is the Bible interpreting itself" (5/2/13)
2. The strange thing is that all the people who say "The Bible is its own interpreter" seem to come up with different interpretations. (5/2/13)
3. For example R. C. Sproul and Joel Osteen have just about as far apart interpretations of the Bible as you can get but the both say "The Bible is its own interpreter." (5/2/13)
4. You can not argue with these types of people about what the Bible says because after all your interpretation is just your interpretation but their interpretation is the Bible interpreting itself. (5/2/13)
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World Peace

1. “What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”― Blessed Teresa of Calcutta (5/1/13)

"Among these [apostles] Peter alone almost everywhere deserved to represent the whole Church. Because of that representation of the Church, which only he bore, he deserved to hear 'I will give to you the keys of the kingdom of Heaven.'" St. Augustine of Hippo ("Sermon 295," c. 411 A.D.) (4/29/13)

Believing

1. "Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace." --St. Thomas Aquinas (4/26/13)
2. "We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe." --John Henry Newman (4/30/13)
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Deathbed Conversions

1. "Though there be such things as deathbed conversions, nevertheless as the tree falls, there it lies. One man who led an evil life always boasted of the fact that he needed never worry about his soul when time would end, for he could save it with three words which he quoted in Latin: "Miserere mei Deus" [-- God have mercy, on me]. He was right about saying three words at the moment of his death, but they were not the words he expected to say, for his life had not been lived as to pronounce them from his heart. As his horse threw him over the cliff he said: "Capiat omnia biabolus," which means, 'I'll be damned." -Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen (On Being Human) (4/25/13)

Free Will

1. Only those who use free will have free will. (4/23/13)
2. “That little word 'ought' implies that man is free. Fire must be hot, ice must be cold, but a man ought to be good." -Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen (5/2/13)

Worship

1. "Worshipping God means learning to be with him, stripping away our hidden idols and placing him at the centre of our lives." -Pope Francis, Twitter (4/20/13)

Fulton J. Sheen,

“When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.”

- Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living (3/6/13)

Epidural Steroid Injections

1. Epidural steroid injections "were associated with significantly less improvement at 4 years among all patients with spinal stenosis." (Spine: 15 February 2013 - Volume 38 - Issue 4 - p 279–291, 2/20/13)

St. Augustine

1. "God created us without us: but he did not will to save us without us." - Augustine of Hippo, Sermo 169,11,13

New Age

1. If New Age authors really believed it when they say "we are all one" than where is our share of our royalties from our books we wrote? (2/15/13)

Antichrist

1. The following is a partial list of Reformers and Reformation documents that said the pope is the Antichrist. 
1. Martin Luther
2. John Calvin
3. Thomas Cranmer
4. John Knox
5. Cotton Mather
6. John Wesley
7. Smalcald Articles
8. Westminster Confession (1646)
9. 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith
10. King James
11. John Wycliffe
12. William Tyndale
13. Philip Melanchthon
14. Huldreich Zwingli
15. C. H. Spurgeon
16. Jonathan Edwards
2. The Catholic Church said the pope is not  the Antichrist.
3. If  the pope is the Antichrist than the Reformers were right and Catholic Church was wrong.
4. If the pope is not the Antichrist than the Reformers were wrong and the Catholic Church was right.
5. Do you think the pope is the Antichrist?

Protestants

1. As long as there is divorce and remarriage there will be Protestants. (2/5/13)

Pope

1. "The Pope! How many divisions has he got?" -Joseph Stalin

Rome

1. "Rome is called the Apostolic throne." - St. Athanasius (AD 362), Hist. Arian, ad Monach. n. 35 (1/30/13)

Margaret Sanger

1. "We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. And we do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." -Margaret Sanger (1/24/13)

Original Sin

1. "Original Sin is nothing else than despising the authority of God and, consequently, all authority." -John D. Meehan

Total Depravity

1. To claim the total depravity of man as Calvin did is to deny the conscience. Any person with conscience knows the conscience exist. (1/18/13)
2. Calvinist make a distinction without a difference between total depravity and utter depravity, but total means 100%. You can not be more depraved than 100% depraved. (1/19/13)

Cough

1. "There is a mismatch between patients’ expectations regarding the duration of ACI [cough] and the actual duration based on the best available evidence." "The mean duration of cough in the published literature was 17.8 days. Survey respondents reported a median duration of 5 to 7 days" (doi: 10.1370/afm.1430Ann Fam MedJanuary/February 2013vol. 11 no. 1 5-13, 1/15/13)

Family Meal

1. "Devoting just three or four extra minutes per day to family mealtimes helps to reduce the risk of childhood obesity." (International Business Times 1/18/13)
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Autism

1. "Some children who are accurately diagnosed in early childhood with autism lose the symptoms and the diagnosis as they grow older, a study supported by the National Institutes of Health has confirmed."  (NIMH, 1/16/13)

Values

1. Values are relative. Virtue is an absolute. (1/12/13)

Disc Herniation

1. "Obese patients realized less clinical benefit from both operative and nonoperative treatment of lumbar disc herniation." (J Bone Joint Surg Am, 2013 Jan 02;95(1):1-8. doi: 10.2106/JBJS.K.01558, 1/11/13)

Eggs

1. "Higher consumption of eggs (up to one egg per day) is not associated with increased risk of coronary heart disease or stroke." (BMJ 2013; 346 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.e8539 (Published 7 January 2013)Cite this as: BMJ 2013;346:e8539, 1/9/10)

Contraception

1. Attraction 101: How The Pill Affects Your Dating Choices (1/8/13)

Prudence

1. Definition (1/7/13)
1. "doing what is right"- Bill Donohue (1/7/13)
2. "right reason in action"- Aquinas (1/7/13)
3. Reason tells us what is possible. Prudence tells us what is right..(1/7/13)
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Gun Control

1. Jesus on gun control: "if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one." (12/31/12)
2. "those correlations ["nations with more guns have more death and that nations that have imposed stringent gun controls have achieved substantial reductions in criminal violence (or suicide)"]are not observed when a large number of nations are compared across the world." WOULD BANNING FIREARMS REDUCE MURDER AND SUICIDE?A REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL AND SOME DOMESTIC EVIDENCE DON B. KATES* AND GARY MAUSER (8/30/13)

Crying Babies

1. Psychology professor, Marsha Weinraub and team believe than in the vast majority of cases,the infant should be left to self-soothe and go back to sleep without any help.(Medical News Today, 1/3/13)

Vision

1. "Vision without action is a daydream, action without vision is a nightmare." - Dr. David Jeremiah (1/1/13)

Virtue

1. Definition (1/7/13)
1. "a good habit" -William C. Mattison III (1/7/13)
2. "[T]he Ten Commandments tell us what not to do; virtue tells us what to do." - Bill Donohue, Why Catholicism Matters, page 24 (1/1/13)
3. Forced "virtue" is no virtue. (5/19/13)
4. A person can no more instantly become virtuous than he can instantly learn to play the piano. (8/22/13)
5. Types (1/7/13)
1. Cardinal Virtues 
1. Prudence (1/7/13)
2. Justice (1/7/13)
3. Fortitude (1/7/13)
4. Temperance (1/7/13)
2. Theological Virtues (1/7/13)
1. Faith (1/7/13)
2. Hope (1/7/13)
3. Charity (1/7/13)