Anyone wondering how the Church is using new media to reach the masses might just want to download this unusual selection to their iPod: the rosary, set to contemporary music. From the AP, via a newspaper in Salt Lake City: Madonna is on Jennifer Zablocki’s iPod. So is ”The Madonna.” The Detroit-area 12th-grade teacher works…

With so much attention over the last few days being directed at the anniversary of Humanae Vitae a certain amount of attention should also go to the woman pictured on the left. She is Mrs. Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood. I discovered the other day a rare television interview with her — and…

Chant has been rebounding in popularity for some time now, ever since those Benedictine monks released their blockbuster recording several years back. Now the Cistercians have gotten into the act — and they are also causing a musical sensation: It isn’t every day that a group of Catholic monks find themselves on the pop charts.…

Want to see inside the mind of a reporter? Sounds scary — but this is actually fascinating and fruitful. Boston Globe reporter Michael Paulson covers one of the bigger beats in Beantown, religion, and he’s just launched a blog at the paper dubbed Articles of Faith. He posted an item recently about covering the (use…

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