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Chihuahua Mix Puppy Who Was Dumped by Owners Still Looking For New Home

A local and dedicated foster-based dog rescue in Massachusetts, Great Dog Rescue New England (GDRNE), would like you to meet Rolo Candy, a loving young puppy who has been in their care. According to the rescue, “The CANDY litter are a mix of adorable pups who were dumped at a ferry landing in Tennessee. They're excited to leave the stray life behind and find their way to candy land!” He has been living with a loving foster family where he has reportedly been “doing great!”

Massachusetts · 9d

Dianna Carney

This Sweet German Shepherd Is Waiting for the Person Who’ll Make His Tail Wag Forever

Guinness, a playful German Shepherd Dog with a love of tennis balls, outdoor adventures, and people, is looking for a forever home, according to Sandy Paws Rescue Inc. The Massachusetts foster-based rescue explains he would thrive with a secure yard where he can safely roam, sniff and explore.

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The DSA Was Born in the Catholic Church

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7 Christmas Eve Dishes Different American Families Swore By

I use AI to help draft these articles. Every recipe and every fact in them is checked before publishing. On December 24th, the question was never what to cook for Christmas Eve supper. It was already decided, usually before anyone in the house was born. In Texas, that meant tamales. In Minnesota, lutefisk. In New Mexico, a pot of posole that had gone on the stove that morning. Each family treated the meal as settled law, and each was absolutely certain their version was the correct one.

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7 Church-Basement Wedding Reception Dishes From the 1960s and 1970s

I use AI to help draft these articles. Every recipe and every fact in them is checked before publishing. From roughly 1955 through the late 1970s, a wedding reception in much of small-town America meant the church basement or the VFW hall. Folding tables lined up under fluorescent lights. Paper tablecloths weighted down with chafing dishes. The catering was handled by the women of the congregation, who divided up the menu at a planning meeting and showed up the morning of the wedding with their own pans and their own serving spoons.

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7 Dishes From 1950s–70s Confirmation and First Communion Parties

I use AI to help draft these articles. Every recipe and every fact in them is checked before publishing. The ceremony wrapped up before noon. Then came forty minutes of photographs on the church steps, and everyone drove back to the house where two tables had been pushed together and covered with the good cloth. The aunts came through the door first. The grandmothers came second, holding things.

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Fulton Sheen, a Staunch Defender of the Second Vatican Council and the Poor, to Be Beatified

St. Louis, MO · 2d

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7 Immigrant Comfort Dishes American Grandkids Called 'Regular Food'

I use AI to help draft these articles. Every recipe and every fact in them is checked before publishing. Every dish on this list arrived in America inside someone's memory. Not a written recipe, just the way a mother learned it from her mother, carried across an ocean and rebuilt in a Chicago three-flat or a South Florida kitchen or a New Jersey row house where something was always on the stove. By the time the grandkids sat down to eat, nobody at the table called it Hungarian or Greek or Czech. It was just dinner.

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Dianna Carney

“How Has NO ONE Applied?”: Little Mandy Is Still Waiting for Someone to Choose Her

Forever Paws Animal Shelter in Fall River, Massachusetts, says it can’t understand why a small senior dog named Mandy has drawn no interest, posting an emotional plea that begins, “How has NO ONE applied for this girl?! Not a single application, phone call, nothing. What? How? WHY?” The shelter describes Mandy as an affectionate “velcro pup” who “will glue herself to you and never leave,” adding that while she enjoys walks “at a brisk dawdle,” she’d “much rather be in your lap or curled up next to you, as long as she’s touching you somehow.”

Fall River, MA · 23d

Dianna Carney

Meet Midge: The Sweet Little Shadow Hoping to Follow You Home

Midge, an affectionate dog awaiting a forever home, needs an adopter with Frenchie or similar breed experience, according to Sandy Paws Rescue Inc. The Massachusetts foster-based rescue describes her as a devoted companion who loves being close to her people and says she may be happiest in a home ready for plenty of cuddles, continued training and supervision.

Massachusetts · 2d

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7 Rural Southern Church-Supper Dishes Still Worth Making

I use AI to help draft these articles. Every recipe and every fact in them is checked before publishing. A Midwestern potluck and a rural Southern church supper look similar from a distance: long folding tables, covered dishes, somebody's mother's dessert at the end of the line. Get closer and the resemblance fades fast. In much of the rural South, food was organized by type and the dessert table stood apart, treated almost as its own room. Brunswick Stew came in a cast iron pot the size of a washtub, tended by men who had been at the fire since before the service started. Cornbread baked in the church kitchen and got cut into squares before it hit the table. Banana Pudding traveled layered in a glass bowl, not a pan, because presentation on that table was its own kind of statement.

Brunswick, GA · 21d

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“Even the Nuns Are Mad” — Indianapolis Archbishop Excuses Catholics From Mass as ICE Surges Into Indiana

Indianapolis, IN · 19d

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Pope Leo XIV Elevates Pro-LGBT, Pro-Women Ordination Voices to Major Church Offices

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Right-Wing Traditionalists Erupts as Pope Leo XIV Defends Vatican II’s Reform of the Mass

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Dianna Carney

Meet Malibu Seagull: The Young Puppy Who Survived Tragedy & is Now Looking For Love

Get ready to meet a loving young puppy who is hoping to put her difficult past behind her and find a bright future. Great Dog Rescue New England (GDRNE), a dedicated foster-based dog rescue in Massachusetts, recently introduced Malibu Seagull after she came into their care. According to the rescue, “She and her SEAGULL brothers were surrendered by owners in Tennessee who didn't want them. Mom is a coonhound, and dad was a stray that dug into her kennel area. These sweets are the only survivors out of 14 puppies.”

Massachusetts · 13d

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Florida GOP Screamed “DEI Hirers”—Now Its Black & Cuban Candidates Must Face That Vitriol

What goes around comes around: Republicans who spent years vilifying "DEI" diversity programs now face the same language they used, aimed squarely at their own nominees in the race for governor, even by their own voters.

Florida · 22d

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