Auriesville retreat house sold – I’ve never been there, but Michael did a 30-day retreat there years ago. The Jesuits will keep the shrine, of course.. Colonial-era Jesuit missionaries laid the groundwork for converting the Mohawks to Christianity at Auriesville. It was also the birthplace in 1656 of Kateri Tekakwitha, the "Lily of the Mohawks,"…

…she scores. Barbara Nicolosi on this week’s DVC events: The Da Vinci Code is so ridiculous in its premises, that it is giving it a false gravity to even take it seriously enough so as to argue about it. ["And tomorrow, the Christians will be offering a hermenutical exigesis of moral praxis as can be…

…to Cleveland! Southern Baptists are rolling out a multimilli on-dollar evangelistic blitz to rock Cleveland with the Rock of Ages, an event other religious groups in the region are greeting with a mixture of anticipation and concern. Over the next two years, thousands of Southern Baptists from the state and the country are expected to…

…here’s Umberto Eco on DVC, and Fr. John Wauck points out Eco’s surprising (or not) recommendation: One curious side-effect of the Da Vinci Code phenomenon is the scholar-novelist Umberto Eco’s recommendation of the official Opus Dei website. Exhausted by continuous questions about the veracity of The Da Vinci Code, Italy’s best-known former-Catholic tells his readers,…

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