Today’s General Audience, mostly in the rain: The murder of the Christian minister, Pierre Gemayel in Beirut yesterday evening should prompt the Lebanese people to work together to build national unity and countries with the welfare of the Middle East at heart to strive to eliminate injustice afflicting it. Benedict XVI talked about the latest…

A robust, bracing piece from Simon Barnes the chief sports writer of the (UK) Times on life with his Downs’ Syndrome son, Eddie. So Eddie was born, and I have spent the subsequent five years living with him. Not living with Down’s syndrome: what a ridiculous idea. Living with Eddie. Who is my boy. And…

Sandro Magister has reprinted the Pope’s preface to his forthcoming book. At this moment, it’s not been translated into English on that site, but might be by morning. We’ll see. Teresa Benedetta has whiipped out a translation for us, though. (Scroll down) I arrived at this book on Jesus, whose first part I am presenting…

From CNS: Announcing the publication Nov. 21, Rizzoli and the Vatican gave reporters copies of the book’s preface and a portion of its introduction. In the preface, signed "Joseph Ratzinger — Benedict XVI," the pope wrote that for decades he had noticed a growing scholarly distinction between the "historical Jesus" and the "Christ of faith,"…

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