The good people at the Religion News Service have discovered something a lot of us have known for a while: MCPF (My Close Personal Friend) Stephen Colbert is, indeed, a good Catholic boy: Colbert has said that he attends church, observes Lent and teaches Sunday school. “I love my church, and I’m a Catholic who…

That’s how British journalist Anna Arco describes the Catholic blogosphere, and she makes some excellent observations. A snip: This year, at a talk given at New Orleans, Archbishop Claudio Celli expressed his concerns about the challenges facing the Catholic blogosphere. Drawing from examples in politics, he said that blogs could lead to increasing polarisation within…

I’ve wondered about that for a while, and now this curious piece in the New York Times — in the Fashion section, believe it or not — confirms it (though Coulter, it seems, is, um, un-comfirmed…literally): Ms. Coulter was born in 1961, the youngest of three children in suburban New Canaan, Conn., where she was…

“The CNN culture is still very strange. You walk into that building, you think you’re the Jesuits and you’re protecting a certain legacy. They still look at Fox as a carnival–not Fox as a brilliant marketing entity. It’s weird. They’re decades into it, and they’ll protect it to the end.” — Disgraced former governor-turned-TV-host Eliot…

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