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I’ve been reminded by Julie over at Happy Catholic that it’s that time of year again. (No, not time to run and hide because it’s getting closer to Christmas.) It’s time for the annual Weblog Awards. There’s a category this year for Best Religious Blog. Know any candidates?

Wow. I’m humbled to be included in such esteemed company. Thanks, Dave!

The gospel this Sunday is familiar to a lot of us. We tend to think it’s all about ability, or talent — what special gifts God has given you. Certainly, that’s a big part of it. But I think there is more to the parable of the talents than just a lesson in using your…

MCPF takes His Holiness to the woodshed.

Jiminy Cricket is the one who sang those immortal words, and the concept of conscience has been very much in the news lately. This Saturday, Jim Martin makes some salient points about conscience and canon law and the case of Fr. Roy Bourgeois: The canon applied in this case has not been announced. It may…

…just might be your parish priest. Take a look at this list of America’s happiest workers.

Is another counter-Reformation brewing? Over at the Wall Street Journal, author David Gibson is wondering about that. He has been pondering the meaning and potential impact of the recent Vatican synod on the bible: The synod’s 55 final recommendations to the pope (he will likely approve most of them in a document of his own…

Over at America, they have a very good dissection of my favorite TV series “Mad Men,” and I discovered that a lot of the best clips from the show are available on YouTube. The one below is, to my mind, a television classic, wherein the protagonist, the enigmatic Don Draper, has been assigned to come…

In my home state of Maryland, a panel has taken a strong stand for life — and voted in favor of completely abolishing the death penalty. From the Baltimore Sun: While executions in Maryland are infrequent, the issue is being debated here as state executions are being scrutinized nationwide because of high-profile exonerations of death-row…

From our Hollywood Desk, a.k.a. Starpulse, a little tidbit about a high profile Catholic in Tinsletown: “Entourage” has become a curse for Mark Wahlberg on Sundays – because people approach him in church with story lines and requests to be on the hit show. Wahlberg, who is the producer of the series – which is…
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