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It seems Pope Benedict is also Pop Benedict. Soda pop, to be exact: Winston Churchill made no secret of his love of brandy and cigars; Margaret Thatcher was bereft without her handbag, and Pope Benedict XVI, I can reveal, has Fanta. When the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, visited the Vatican this week, he gave…

I’ve been told it’s a lost cause, but American Papist has a few ideas. Check ’em out. And good luck. I know the Diocese of Brooklyn has been given a grand total of three (3) tickets per parish. My parish held a drawing to determine who would get them — and then selected a few…

The pope today released his message for World Communications Day, which doesn’t happen until May. Perhaps he had a more urgent point to make. The high points, from CNS: In a world where the media increasingly distort facts and manipulate minds, the communication industry needs an ethics code, Pope Benedict XVI said. Just as bioethics…

Anyone wondering what the former cardinal archbishop of Boston is up to these days can find the answer in the pages of this week’s National Catholic Reporter, courtesy John Allen: Five years after the most tumultuous fall from grace in the history of American Catholicism, Cardinal Bernard Law seems to have achieved something in Rome…
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