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Jody Bottum is looking: The young Robert Lowell was often accused of becoming a Catholic because it gave him so many deep things to write about and a received set of images to play with. Why aren’t poets flocking to the pro-life banner for much the same reason? The answer, of course, is that they…

And just to be contrary, you can add your two cents to this thread, inspired by what Alexandra Pelosi is quoted as saying about her own Catholic education: Learning about that divide was a shock to the woman who spent her childhood in progressive Catholic schools. "We were taught just to accept people, that was…

Bishop Yanta of Amarillo has issued a pastoral letters which is drawing attention because he’s quite forthright on Catholic teaching on contraception, praise of large families etc., in it, but I was drawn to this section, myself: Two big mistakes by parents and children The first mistake by the parents to children: “What are you…

New York magazine runs a long David Gibson piece on Cardinal Egan: It’s a lengthy article, and one which strikes me as balanced. He points out why Egan was brought into New York as the ordinary – to clean up the financial and administrative mess left by Cardinal O’Connor, and except for a few clumsy…

Over the past 5+ years, we’ve discussed Catholic education on this blog – the good, the bad and the useless. In honor of Catholic schools week, I’m going to run a post in which you’re invited to share positive memories and experiences of Catholic education. It would be helpful if you specified when you attended,…

He was 86: The Rev. Robert F. Drinan, a Jesuit who served in Congress for 10 years until stepping down in response to a papal order, died Sunday. He was 86 and lived here in housing for the Georgetown University Jesuit community. A university statement Sunday night said Father Drinan had recently been ill with…

Most fascinating news from the UK – Benedict makes a donation: The Pope has made an unprecedented personal donation of £2,000 to the Roman Catholic chaplaincy at the University of Cambridge to help it and the faith survive at one of Britain’s main centres of academic excellence. Pope Benedict XVI, who was a university teacher…

A reader passes on the link to the audio of the homily from Fr. Bill Byrne, Catholic chaplain at the University of Maryland, at this week’s Youth Rally Mass for Life. And here’s the text, again, for Archbishop Wuerl’s homily (text) at the 7:30 AM Mass at the Shrine on 1/22. Finally, Cardinal Archbishop Rigali’s…

A couple of notes from the email box this morning: Mom, author and artist Regina Doman has started a blog with a very specific focus – and a lovely, clean, look with quite artful photography,  BTW: How can you be an artist when you’re a busy mom or dad who doesn’t have much time to…

New Mexico bishops meet with Governor Richardson: New Mexico’s three Catholic bishops met with Gov. Bill Richardson on Thursday to urge him to reconsider proposed state funding for embryonic stem cell research. The governor’s budget in brief, submitted on the opening day of the session, includes $3.8 million in capital outlay funding and $2.2 million…
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