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At one time or another, we all think we were born in the wrong era, perhaps twenty years or twenty centuries too late. At the very least, most of have particular places, now vanished, that we would very much like to have seen. For me, there are two: ancient Rome (although a quick trip there…

Okay, this one isn’t easy. Sigh. Yes, it’s Russo’s Bridge of Sighs, which I read last week. I’m not going to say that I either do or don’t recommend it because, you know, everyone has different tastes, and I know some people who hate Flannery O’Connor, although I really don’t understand them. I’ll just speak…

You only have one more day to download the very interesting BBC “In Our Time” program on the Divine Right of Kings. I learned a lot – very good context setting, in which you can see how the English thinking about Divine Right in the context of competing with papal claims, etc. You can listen…

CNS reports on encyclical #2: Pope Benedict XVI has completed his second encyclical, a meditation on Christian hope, Vatican sources said. The text, tentatively titled “Spe Salvi” (“Saved by Hope”), is about 65 pages, sources said Oct. 16. No release date has been set for the document. The working title comes from St. Paul’s letter…
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