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Then this little blog is for you. Further proof — if any were needed — that there is a blog out there for everyone. I stumbled on it last night and was charmed to find this lovely prayer by Albert Schweitzer: Hear our humble prayer,O God,for our friends, the animals, especially for animals who are…

By now, you have probably seen this video, explaining the authentic, monkey-inspired way to open a banana: But wait. There’s more. Check out how gorillas do it (at least, at Busch Gardens):

Bored? Glancing at the news, I come to this conclusion: it’s a Monday in late August and it seems like the world is either on vacation or just insane. (That doesn’t include people with names like Gosselin, or Jackson, who seem now to occupy their own corner of the news universe.) Thank goodness, for The…

Amy Welborn can’t. Check out this latest entry. And then crank up the volume, below. Oh: and for a very different interp of the same music, there’s this version, from “Glee.”

Most of us remember her as Ike Godsy’s prim spouse up on Walton’s Mountain. But the actress Ronnie Claire Edwards is also something of a character herself, and she recently bought a Dallas Catholic Church and converted it into a living space. From the Dallas Morning News: “This was never intended as a habitat –…

A move that surprised many — and angered more than a few — has been greeted warmly by at least one Catholic cleric. Catholic News Service has details: A Scottish priest who served at Lockerbie, Scotland, at the time an airliner was blown from the sky by terrorists has welcomed the release from jail of…

The controversial priest who participated in a woman’s ordination ceremony last year is back in the news again — and continuing to stir the pot: A prominent priest whose support for women’s ordination has him in trouble with the Catholic Church ratcheted up his confrontation with the hierarchy yesterday, calling the church’s refusal to ordain…

In the middle of marking two feasts of the Blessed Mother — the Assumption and the Queenship of Mary — Zenit has published a report on one of the great unsolved mysteries of the Virgin: Juan Diego’s tilma. Take a look: A physicist who has spent years researching the tilma bearing the image of Our…

I never thought it would be possible for someone to make an absorbing movie in which the central dramatic question turned on whether a 30-year-old woman from Queens could master the art of boning a duck. But then Nora Ephron made “Julie & Julia,” and another preconception bit the dust. My wife and I went…

That’s evidently the latest rule enacted in Spain as a way of averting swine flu. Details: For centuries, pilgrims have visited one of Roman Catholicism’s holiest shrines—the cathedral holding the purported remains of St. James the Apostle, Spain’s patron saint. It was customary for them to hug a statue of St. James and even kiss…
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