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Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor approves a Mass: Now, however, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor has taken the controversial step of allowing fortnightly Masses in his Westminster diocese specifically for homosexuals. That link takes you to a newspaper article.( Zadok comments on the article itself and its flaws and questions here) It might be better to read the statement…

There’s a bit of a kerfuffle regareding this year’s Newberry Award winning book – and the NYTimes reports. (The issue is a single word right on the first page of the novel.) I’m going to say that what frankly surprises me about this controversy is that there are librarians who are taking a stand against…

The mess that was Our Lady of Las Vegas – even before the pastor was charged with assaluting a parishioner. Signs of discord within the church, on Alta Drive near Rancho Drive, first surfaced four years ago when members of the church’s sizable Filipino community staged weekly protests outside the church. They were calling for…

Also from the Herald – revitalizing music in an English parish: A mass of bouncy children appeared at my feet in the main hall of St Wulstan’s in Wolstanton, Staffordshire. They had run down from their choir practice in the organ loft, where they had been rehearsing the plainchant Orbis Factor Mass and a couple…

The new edition of the British Catholic paper the Catholic Herald, features Scottish International Relief, ministering to the poorest of the poor: For Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, the poverty in Haiti is the worst he has ever seen. The founder and director of the charity Scottish International Relief (SIR) speaks from a wealth of experience as his…

From a reader: Our (Catholic) couples book discussion group is thinking about reading The Inferno, by Dante.  I was wondering if there is a preferred English translation.  Also, we will be interested in finding a companion/commentary book to help us understand the book’s context and meaning, and would love recommendations for such a volume.

Don’t go to the movies much – don’t even watch too many films at home, unfortunately. I’m not sure why this is…but two recent viewings: After Christmas, when David was here, he and I and Katie went to see Dreamgirls. Mostly because Katie wanted to see it, and at the time, it was being touted…

Fr. Martin Fox shares what he’ll be doing in his Ohio parish: A different tone at Mass: * Sober music, less instruments.* Except for 4th Sunday of Lent, no flowers at all in the church or chapel.* Like last Advent, we will use a psalm-antiphon at the entrance, instead of a hymn. This is the…

I read this biography of Jacques and Raissa Maritain a couple of months ago, meant to blog on it before I returned it to the library, but…forgot. So here we are. Again. This book, originally written in French, was just recently translated into English by Notre Dame’s Bernard Doering and has garnered some awards: "Jacques…

Personally, I wish someone had the guts to fire Danielle Radcliffe from future Harry Potters right now, on the spot. Oh, please. It’s not that 12-year olds are going to be going to Equus in London. It’s not that the "actor" and the "role" are going to be confused and pre-teens will have their "role…
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