Is another counter-Reformation brewing? Over at the Wall Street Journal, author David Gibson is wondering about that. He has been pondering the meaning and potential impact of the recent Vatican synod on the bible: The synod’s 55 final recommendations to the pope (he will likely approve most of them in a document of his own…

Over at America, they have a very good dissection of my favorite TV series “Mad Men,” and I discovered that a lot of the best clips from the show are available on YouTube. The one below is, to my mind, a television classic, wherein the protagonist, the enigmatic Don Draper, has been assigned to come…

In my home state of Maryland, a panel has taken a strong stand for life — and voted in favor of completely abolishing the death penalty. From the Baltimore Sun: While executions in Maryland are infrequent, the issue is being debated here as state executions are being scrutinized nationwide because of high-profile exonerations of death-row…

From our Hollywood Desk, a.k.a. Starpulse, a little tidbit about a high profile Catholic in Tinsletown: “Entourage” has become a curse for Mark Wahlberg on Sundays – because people approach him in church with story lines and requests to be on the hit show. Wahlberg, who is the producer of the series – which is…

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