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..or something like that. Wrong language? Probably: Magister on the new head of the Italian bishops’ conference – taken as a sign of the Pope’s mind and heart, since the position is selected by the Pope: As of yesterday, the Italian bishops’ conference, CEI, has a new president. He is Angelo Bagnasco, archbishop of Genoa,…

Tim Drake on novelist Dean Koontz in NCR(egister) Koontz’ books — more than 50 to date — often feature ordinary people facing extraordinary evil. It’s a theme Koontz draws from his own life, as he was raised by a father whom Koontz has described as a sociopath. Later in his life Koontz’s father made two…

Today is the feast of Sts. Perpetua and Felicity – the account of their martyrdom is found here. More: Of the several authentic accounts of early Christian martyrdom that have been preserved, none is so detailed as that of Saints Perpetua and Felicity of Carthage, and four Christian men.  They died under the decree of…

Today’s General Audience: By praying for the civil authorities, even when they are persecuted by them, Christians follow Christ’s teaching on the cross and recognise the legitimacy of the political institutions. But “Cesar is not everything, another sovereignty emerges” born of the truth that God is coming, and thus “is worthy of being heard even…
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