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From the “I Didn’t Know That” Desk comes this poignant news, via CNA: The Kenyan man named by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s oldest pupil, who enrolled in classes to learn to read the Bible and converted to Catholicism in the final years of his life, died in Nairobi on Friday…

Time magazine has what I think may be the first in-depth look at Newt Gingrich’s recent conversion. From the magazine: Visitors to the Basilica of the National Shrine in northeast Washington often do a double take when they see Newt Gingrich and his familiar shock of white hair slip into a pew for the noon…

The scandal swirling around one of college basketball’s most celebrated coaches — and a Catholic, at that — has raised questions about morality and forgiveness — along with more mundane things, like whether the man in question has violated the terms of his contract. This, from the AP: Rick Pitino’s personal failings should be forgiven…

You might think it would be otherwise, but a story out this weekend indicates bad times are good news for charitable giving to churches: Frank Berning, a lifelong Roman Catholic, has upped his church giving as the economy drooped. “I always try to contribute what’s possible, and our priest stressed that there are unemployed people…
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