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Full text isn’t out, but John Allen reports on this morning’s homily from the Preacher of the Papal Household, Capuchin Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa: Friedrich Nietzsche espoused a pagan lust for power “irreducibly” opposed to Christian non-violence, the Preacher of the Papal Household told the pope this morning, and it’s difficult not to see a connection…

I have spent a few days now going over Sacramentum Caritatis, for it seems now, no purpose, but that’s another story….anyway…some more thoughts. 1) It’s a collegial document, rooted in the Synodal propositions. Some have expressed distress, for example, that there’s no mention of ad orientem in the document. Well, it apparently didn’t come up…

Thanks to Nance for sending this one along: The Anatomical Museum in Modena, Italy, which consists of a collection of simply astonishing obstetrical models realized by Giovan Battista Manfredini in Modena between 1773 and 1775. Almost full-scale models of women in various stages of pregnancy, skin and other layers peeled away (no, not Bodyworks!) ,…

No? What’s the matter with you? Emily Stimson writes at OSV of the latest faddishness given a platform by Oprah Winfrey: According to Jesuit Father Mitch Pacwa, who hosts EWTN Live and writes extensively on the New Age movement, The Secret, far from being some long-lost piece of ancient wisdom, is just the same old…
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