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Says Paris Hilton is too moral to play Mother Theresa. DJ gets unjustifiably verbally violent in response; is fired. Yeah, it’s all in good fun. Fun when, like Penn Jillette,  you have no real sense of the suffering of the poor, of the desperate straits of the abandoned dying whom Mother Theresa served, and, in…

You know, I could have gone all out in searching for souvenirs from Rome to give my two young adult sons. Art reproductions, fancy models of landmarks, Italian-made Man Garments. But, instead, I settled, along with a few other geegaws,  for a pen into which is constructed a model of St. Peter’s, surrounded by a…

This just came across the email transom. A press release from the corporate and foundation -funded Catholics for Free Choice: April 19 marks the one-year anniversary of Joseph Ratzinger’s papacy. Pope Benedict XVI has not emerged as a high profile public personality. Efforts to shape the secular world to fit the Vatican’s ideas have been…

But it’s spring! Sorry, must be done. I declared I would respond to the Michael Sean Winters piece on "Benedict the Ecumenical" in The New Republic, so let’s have a go at it. As I do so, I’m going to borrow from astute comments below. So consider yourself credited! The piece seems rooted in a…
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