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He has some large and decidedly controversial shoes to fill, but NBC’s anchorman probably won’t encounter anything like the heat that greeted President Obama when he addressed graduates last year. Notre Dame made the announcement last week: Brian Williams, anchor and managing editor of “NBC Nightly News,” will be the principal speaker and recipient of…

In fact, in Britain it seems to not only be surviving, but thriving: Some ember still seems to burn in Britain’s 3.6 million regular churchgoers, for almost all of them feel a sense of expectation for the Sunday sermon, according to researchers at Durham University. Fully 96.6 per cent of those surveyed “look forward” to…

This is one of the more bizarre — and unsettling — news items of the day. Maybe the week. From ABC News: Coded references to New Testament Bible passages about Jesus Christ are inscribed on high-powered rifle sights provided to the United States military by a Michigan company, an ABC News investigation has found. The…

This bad. And it’s horrific. Via The Anchoress.

After NBC rejected a similar ad last year, which featured Barack Obama, this seems to be a significant move. The press release: Focus on the Family will broadcast the first Super Bowl ad in its history February 7 during CBS Sports’ coverage of the game at Dolphin Stadium in South Florida. The 30-second spot from…

“When you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. don’t just set out to do a good job. Set out to do such a good job that the living, the dead or the unborn…

It happened this morning in Turkey: Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish man who shot and wounded Pope John Paul II in 1981, was released from a Turkish prison on Monday proclaiming that he was “the Christ eternal” after serving jail terms totaling 29 years. Under heavy guard and with his car flanked by a huge…

Not as many as you may think — and David Gibson raises a few interesting issues in his New York Times piece: When Pope Benedict XVI approved a decree last month that nudged nearer to sainthood his controversial wartime predecessor, Pius XII, he sparked another round of the sort of Jewish-Catholic disputations that have marked…

My brother deacon Scott Dodge posted a little rumination this weekend on judging.   I judge it to be something we all need to read and ponder: It is an indisputable article of Christian faith that you will be judged. Each Sunday and on solemnities we recite the Credo and say: “He will come again in…

This Sunday, the people of Haiti gathered together wherever they good to offer prayers and pleadings to God. Many of their churches have been destroyed, but that didn’t stop them. From the New York Times: With their churches flattened, their priests killed and their Bibles lost amid the rubble of their homes, desperate Haitians prayed…
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