Today at the General Audience, Pope Benedict continued speaking on Pope Gregory the Great: From AsiaNews (full text will be posted when available) Illustrating his works, Benedict XVI emphasised his attitude of intellectual humility, “an essential rule” for those who want to penetrate the Scripture, but which “does not mean an absence of serious studies”. …

Update:  Mark Stricherz at Get Religion wishes journalists would do a little digging into the “why now?” question from the Archdiocese’s perspective.   From the Archdiocese: To put recent events in some perspective, I have asked Father Michael Pfleger, Pastor of St. Sabina’s Parish, to step back from his obligations there and take leave for…

Teachers get a lot of criticism. Some of it deserved, because none of us are perfect, but much is undeserved. You try teaching a group of 20 little children raised by televisions. You try teaching Shakespeare or the Industrial Revolution, quadratic equations or the periodic table to teenagers whose heads are deep in whatever social…

1) If you see ads on this site, my apologies. They are nothing that I ask for, but apparently the trade-off for free blogging software are occasional and random ads, which I never see myself. So. 2) I’m going to try the “automatic blog posting” thing from de.licio.us (or whatever). It should pop up around…

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