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This bit of news strikes me as excessive — and just a bad idea: A priest has removed two books about Barack Obama from a Missouri Roman Catholic school’s library because of the president-elect’s abortion position. “I am very pro-life,” the Rev. Ron Elliott of Blue Springs, Mo., told KMBC-TV, Kansas City, Mo. “Because of…

A soldier visits Santa in Baghdad. By Khalid Mohammed / Associated Press.

The biggest song in Britain, courtesy Alexandra Burke from the show “X Factor” (via Whispers). A stunning interp of a haunting and soul-stirring piece of music.

The man who coined the phrase “moral majority” died last week — but most Americans may not have known that he was a Catholic and a deacon. The fine blog Get Religion has more: The most important thing to remember about the late Paul M. Weyrich is that he was a moral and cultural conservative,…

This morning, while getting ready for mass, I clicked on “Sunday Morning” and caught the tail end of a report they did on some of this season’s most ubiquitous figures: angels. It turns out, a sizable majority of Americans believe in them. And they aren’t unique to Western culture. Take a look: There’s no denying…

The good people at the New York Times have collected some of the memorable words and phrases of 2008 in a nifty graphics package, designed by Jessica Hische. “Jump the Shark” is so ’70s. When you’ve really gone too far, you’ve “Nuked the Fridge.” And to find out why, read the entertaining Times piece.

You would be hard-pressed to find a more beautiful “TV Christmas moment” than the one Tony Rossi has unearthed at his fine blog The Intersection. Watch and smile and remember and wipe away a tear.

“Since the diaconate, Our Lady has taken possession of my heart. Maybe, after all, she is the big grace of the diaconate. She was given to me with the book of the Gospels which, like her, gives Christ to the world. I wonder what I have been doing all my life not resting in her…

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. The picture below was taken by a friend, a parishioner in my parish. This is a few blocks from my home in Forest Hills, in the beautiful borough of Queens.

Now, for the man in your life who has everything (including, perhaps, a miter that he wears at the dinner table and a crozier that he uses for raking leaves), something truly special: papal cologne. For that whiff of infallibility. You can read more at this link. H/T to Pontifications (of course!)
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