January, 2005
Montgomery County’s Biggest Mystery: The Lyon Sisters
The 30th anniversary, March 25, 2005, of the disappearance of Sheila and Kate Lyon near Wheaton Plaza is approaching. There may be coverage of it in the Washington, DC, local media around that time. Judging by the searches that are referred to this site there is still significant interest in the Lyon Sisters case. However the trail remains as cold as it was where it ended, a few blocks from the shopping center at 2:30-3:00 PM, March 25, 1975.
WUSA Channel 9’s Cold Case page about
the Lyon Sisters
My Two Cents About Opus Dei
January, 2005: The Rev. C. John McCloskey III has apparently left the directorship of the Catholic Information Center at 1522 K. St. NW, Washington, DC, and is now “Non-resident Researcher in Education” at Faith & Reason Institute For The Study of Religion and Culture, 1432 K St, NW, just two blocks from the CIC.
He, himself, reports that he is "Spending a year in Britain writing a book on evangelization and preparing a television series on Thomas More..."
As far as I can tell, Faith & Reason Institute is not an Opus Dei front. It has substance. It’s dedicated to using reason to pursue truth as called for in Pope John Paul II’s Encyclical, Fides et Ratio. Opus Dei doesn’t have much use for popes or extramural sources of inspiration. Its members, excepting McCloskey, are generally stand-offish from other Catholic undertakings.
Faith & Reason’s president is Robert Royal, former Vice President of the Ethics & Public Policy Center (where George Weigel is based) which is-—Are you pinpointing it on your maps?—located just off K St. between the CIC and Faith & Reason Institute. A member of the advisory board is rising star, Robert P. George, Princeton and Ave Maria law professor.
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