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So much for that mega-post below.  I’ll try again soon. As we look to Ash Wednesday, a few Lent links. Practiced blogosphere surfers will have already seen them, but nonetheless: Marcel LeJeune’s well-done summary at Aggie Catholics NCR(egister’s) suggestions 40 Ways to Improve Your Lent The Pope’s Lenten Message which focuses on almsgiving, very powerfully. The Internet…

In which I try to haul in recent reads and views and listens. It’s a snow day here, so at the moment little boys are filling the house with sounds of knights and Legos and cars. Some time this afternoon, they’ll be packed up and sent outside for a while with their sister in charge, who…

Just a few notes on the death of Legionary founder Marciel Maciel: 1. There is great mystery as to where Maciel was when he died. Various rumors have been passed around, but the LC says nothing more specific than in the United States.  The NYTimes says he died in Houston. 2. The death notice on the official page says…

Sandro Magister reprints an article from L’Osservatore Romano from a long-time missionary in Kenya. Also, at Inside Catholic Laurance Alvarado conveys a Capuchin’s first-hand report of the destruction wrought by anti-Christian violence in December in the region of Orissa, in India.
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