Fr. George W. Rutler
Nearly fifty years go, my parish secretary, who was elderly even then,
kept the parish accounts using an abacus. I gave her the latest kind of
electric adding machine, which she used dutifully, but I noticed that
she then checked the results with her abacus, an instrument that has
been reliable since long before the […]
John M. Grondelski
A recent article in The New York Times on America’s declining fertility
rates—“American Fertility Is Falling Short of What Women Want” (I note
the article’s title appears to have changed)—was as concerning and
risible as the news they reported. The concerning part was its
statistical confirmation of a trend bedeviling (not just) the Western
world: […]
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