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St. Louis: In a little more than a week, Aquinas Institute of Theology will be one of the first seminaries in the country to be visited by Vatican teams looking for evidence of homosexuality. I’m sorry, but that lede made me laugh out loud. But it’s to be expected. The seminaries are being visited in…

George Weigel on the strengths – and potential weaknesses Contrary to some expectations, Polish Catholicism hasn’t gone the way of Irish Catholicism, Spanish Catholicism, and Portuguese Catholicism in the sixteen years since the Revolution of 1989 — which is to say, Poland hasn’t abandoned its historic faith and the religious roots of its national culture.…

On Benedict at WYD: from Godspy. Pope Benedict has a style. And he has a strategy. If we find them hard to make out, it could be that our eyes need to adjust. We are so used to waiting for a flag-waving crusade that we fail to notice the flap, flap of a monk’s cowl.

Word from Rome is up: Much of interest, including a report on the recent Sant’Egidio ecumenical gathering in Lyons, musings on the limits and purpose of ecumencial dialogue, a conversation with Archbishop Rowan Williams, and then a fuller story on the Pope’s now delayed trip to Turkey, and an interview with the Patriarch of the…
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