Heh. Send it to Bishop D’Arcy. In Dan Brown’s best-selling thriller, “The Da Vinci Code,” the fearless and cerebral Harvard professor Robert Langdon uses his knowledge of ancient religious symbols in a quest for the Holy Grail. His search is often interrupted by questions from his trusted partner, the intrepid and beautiful French cryptologist Sophie…

Reassuring Patients: The pope’s remarks came during a Vatican (news – web sites) symposium on caring for people who are incapacitated. They are significant but do not carry the weight of an encyclical — the Vatican’s most authoritative level of teaching, reserved for matters of extreme importance to the church. “We have to figure out…

Impressive numbers. A campaign to ban a controversial abortion procedure turned in 460,034 petition signatures to state elections officials Thursday, nearly 200,000 more than needed to adopt the ban without the approval of Gov. Jennifer Granholm. Although widely acknowledged as one of the most successful petition drives in recent Michigan history, enactment of the ban…

No one’s saying what was said, but that doesn’t stop us from opining John Kerry yesterday met with Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, archbishop of Washington, D.C. Contrary to the drift of media reports, it was Kerry, not the cardinal, who initiated the meeting. “The senator had asked to meet with the cardinal,” explained archdiocesan spokeswoman Susan…

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