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awelborn
Look. I’ve not seen the last two episodes of Lost. I guess I will watch it tonight. What do I need to know in order to not be…lost? (The last one I saw was the Sawyer-backstory ep, I think…where he ended up taking over the gun cache.)
Patriarch of the West?
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awelborn
A week or so ago, there was a kerfuffle about the title "Patriarch of the West" being dropped from the Pope’s titles in the latest official Vatican Title Directory or whatever. Some wondered if it was a slapdown of the Orthodox, which seems highly unlikely. Fr. Jim Tucker has, what seems to me, a more…
Regrets, I’ve had a few
By
awelborn
Aside from the cheese, there’s another purchase I regret not making. I saw it at The Gesu, the central Jesuit church in Rome. Now, the Gesu is a fascinating place artistically and historically, of course, and I knew some of what to expect there – St. Francis Xavier’s arm and so on. What I, in…
The Audience, Generally
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awelborn
(You won’t believe this, but I still feel as if I’m just getting started on this reporting…) Week ago today, we attended the General Audience in St. Peter’s Square. We had our tickets, retrieved Tuesday evening – an acquaintance arranged ours, but do know these are not hard to get. Santa Susanna, the Paulist-run American…
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