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Fr. Augustine Thompson, O.P comments below: If only there were a good serious biography of the Poverello himself! And I’m sitting here thinking…huh. There isn’t, you know. There are tons and tons of lives of Francis, but not a (to the extent in can be) complete scholarly biography. Interesting.

Essentially shut down: A doctor suspended for allegedly performing two improper abortions filed an appeal Tuesday defending the procedures. The Florida Department of Health entered an emergency suspension against Dr. James Pendergraft on Aug. 10, accusing him of inappropriately conducting two third-trimester abortions in 2004 and 2005 and prescribing drugs without authorization. In the appeal,…

Over the past week, I worked my way through The Spiritual Franciscans: From Protest to Persecution in the Century after Saint Francis. Not an easy book if you’re not already conversant in the period – took me a while to get my bearings, and then I had to go re-read big chunks of it. If…

Yesterday, the Pope took a little trip: An unscheduled pilgrimage for Benedict XVI who, yesterday afternoon, in a "strictly private visit", went to Nemi in the heart of the Castelli Romani [name given to the cluster of towns in the Alban Hills near Rome, among them Castel Gandolfo and the tourist towns of Tivoli and…
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