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There’s been a lot of conversation and positive remarks about the upcoming God or the Girl program on A & E, a "reality" show which follows four potential seminarians as they discern. Matt Abbot writes that despite the goofy title, he liked it. Pia di Solenni agrees: The series, which airs on Easter Sunday, follows…

The text of the Pope’s homily – only in Italian so far A summary: The priest must be first and foremost a “man of prayer”; from this springs “friendship” with Christ, which allows man to act in God’s name and “bears fruit” in priestly deeds, “giving him my flesh”, as Fr Andrea Santoro used to…

American Enterprise Online: But a Cardinal ought not to regard himself as an ordinary political actor. Mahony ought to have thought about two other consequences of his gesture. First, by implicitly comparing the Church to those at whom the law is really directed, he gives the brazenly cynical traffickers in humanity moral and political cover.…

A USA Today piece on the declining number of baptisms Among Catholics, Sullins says, the rate of baptisms has fallen faster than the rate of decline in births. Baptism isn’t the only source of new members. The church’s U.S. numbers — up from 31.6 million in 1954 to 67.8 million last year — also have…
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