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In The Tablet, Robert Mickens looks at the B16 papacy so far, and into 2006: But now as the world gets set to ring in 2006, many people are wondering if the new calendar year will be the point at which Benedict XVI resolves to stop being the caretaker of the John Paul II legacy…

I’m in Chicago, going to speak in a few. I have no idea what you people are saying in the comboxes, but I haven’t received any emails requesting that I delete or ban someone, so I trust things are okay. Chicago’s not as a cold as it was the last time I was here in…

As noted below,there’s an insane post at the Huffington Post that twists the words of Benedict’s Urbi et Orbi message to give the impression that he’s condemning intellectual achievement, an interpretation that’s gleefully seized on by commentors there, confirming their communal wisdom about the evils of the medieval, backwards, oppressive church. It’s bizarre, frankly, and…

Well, just in time for his memorial, (today), St. Thomas a Becket has been voted worst person of the 12th century by historians surveyed by the BBC history magazine. The Independent explains: As the patron saint of Roman Catholic secular clergy, Becket is nominated for the divisions he caused England. These seemed unlikely when the…
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