…Coming next week to Biola University – a gathering of Christian bloggers. From one of the organizers: Recently, Hugh Hewitt scholarshipped 20 Biola students’ registrations for the upcoming GodBlogConference. The Torrey Honors Institute would like to respond in kind by scholarship 10 Roman Catholic students who blog and 10 Eastern Orthodox students who blog. If…

First Catholic school reopens in New Orleans…first school, actually, since the public schools are still closed. Mass at St. Louis Cathedral: As residents, politicians, the military and others who have worked to save New Orleans listened and prayed during the Mass, reporters and photographers from across the country captured tears of sadness, clasped hands and…

…in Australia SIGN in English and Vietnamese outside St John the Evangelist Catholic Church in East Melbourne lists times for Mass (gio le) on weekdays (ngay trong tuan) and weekends (cuoituan). The first words from the Gospel of St John on an archway of the ornate, high-ceiling church in Victoria Road — "Verbum Caro Factum…

The Church and politics in Italy For four decades after the end of WWII, the Catholic Church wielded power in Italy through the Christian Democrats, so thorougly discredited by corruption scandals that the party was dissolved in the early 1990s after its last Premier, Giulio Andreotti, was found by a court to have extensive Mafia…

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