Vaticanisti reports on some canonical trial news: The number of canonical trials for those priests accused of sexual abuse have increased dramatically this month and will continue through November. Most of these canonical trials are occurring in Rome and many bishops along with the accused priests have been showing up lately in the Eternal City.…

From Peter Chattaway’s Film Chat blog: …David Auburn, the playwright behind Proof (my review), is now working on a script for a movie called St. George and the Dragon. Apparently this film is the brainstorm of Doug Wick, who saw a painting based on this legend three years ago; the IMDB lists Wick as a…

Tomorrow late afternoon, Foof and I are off to Madison, Wisconsin, for that diocese’s catechetical gathering. (pdf file). The keynoter is Rev. Ronald Nuzzi of Notre Dame – I’m doing a couple of workshops spinning off of the theme of Here.Now. We hope they’ve got that babysitter lined up…Not my first visit to Wisconsin, (let’s…

I want to read the casting call for the clerics behind Voight. They look…perfect. CBS has the better-known cast. A young-looking 42-year-old, the British actor Cary Elwes, plays Karol Wojtyla, as John Paul was originally known, until his election as pope, with Mr. Voight covering the 26-year-long papacy. Christopher Lee appears as Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski,…

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