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An LA Times piece on the Tolkien collection at Marquette (LRR) For here, inside Marquette University, rests the world’s preeminent collection of J.R.R. Tolkien’s best-known literary works. The original text for “The Hobbit,” his first published book, is here. So is the manuscript of “The Lord of the Rings.” There are hand-drawn maps. Rejected epilogues.…

Friday preaching to the Palestinians It’s worth tuning in from time to time. Non-Arabic speakers can do this thanks to the invaluable Middle East Media Research Institute, which posts its translations of items from the Arabic media on its website. Because of MEMRI’s work, we can sample the hate speech characteristic of extremist Islam. Thus,…

A Telegraph article on the priest who said Mass on the set of TPOTC Very interesting – the fellow has high family connections among intellectual, aristocratic Old Europe. But it was this passage that I found the most memorable: Speaking at his home near the Roman-era Caracalla Baths – a room in the College of…

About Bishops’ appointments: From the Texas perspective From the Philadelphia paper And here From Helena
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