At Zenit, Elizabeth Lev recounts the impact of Dante – whom the Pope cited as an inspiration for his encyclical- on her own life. There is a heartbreaking sadness at the center of it, but finally, hope. In her column, she also notes this book: A few weeks ago I was given a little book…

At Mirror of Justice, Robert Araujo, S.J., has a rather lengthy post on the Vatican Press Office’s statement on the Mohammed cartoons: Clerics, men and women religious, and many laity have been physically targeted, sometimes with deadly force. Why? Because of their faith. The Holy See’s diplomatic service is well aware of this and, in…

Naomi Schaefer Riley on Catholic schools being sued by fired teachers. Both cases have been blogged on here in the past: the Queens teacher fired for being pregnant and single, and the Wilmington, DE teacher fired from an Ursuline-run high school for signing an abortion-rights petition and volunteering at Planned Parenthood. Here’s the interesting part…

Go read the Insight Scoop blog to see who Notre Dame just hired and where he came from. Here’s the Christianity Today report: Aside from his scholarly writing, Noll has fostered networks of evangelical scholars. He helped to found the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicalism, and in other informal ways, Noll fostered the…

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