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A must-look. The Milwaukee paper did a story on the Coptic Orthodox community there. Take a look at the iconostasis. Marvelous photos, helpful explanation ( by the priest, so not surprising). (There are several photos of details on the structure. Rich and simple, all at the same time.)

Michigan: You are so BLESSED! In a rousing three-hour gospel service, 1,400 worshippers praised Gov. Jennifer Granholm as a leader anointed by God to lead the state into a new era of justice and prosperity. At an inaugural prayer service, preachers compared her to the biblical heroine Esther, a Persian queen who saved her fellow…

Gators? Well, that too. But..it’s good to be #1 at Candyland, too.

Here are two more additions to the book, "Rules of Life:" #5392: If you want to get the "Q" in Scrabble, wait until the game is just about over and you have nothing else to do except play that "U" you’ve been hanging onto the whole game, just in case. You are guaranteed to get…

I have a reader who has been having some struggles with her parish religious education program over the past couple of months. She had run some of their materials by me a while back, and they are problematic. The issue is sexuality education for middle and high school students.  It was an abstinence-only program, but…

Blogger Paul writes in with a link to one of his posts – in which he takes a peak at the Catholic high school at which he taught. The destruction is undisturbed…

In Newsweek That resignation ought to be seen, by the Polish church leadership, as an opportunity: an opportunity to end the internecine wrangling over the IPN files and initiate the kind of study the Kochanowski commission embodied in microcosm in the Wielgus affair—a study of the IPN materials by responsible clergy and laity in order…

In Poland: A second prominent Catholic clergyman quit his post Monday amid allegations he collaborated with Poland’s Communist-era secret police, a day after Warsaw’s new archbishop resigned after admitting he had cooperated with the despised agency. The Rev. Janusz Bielanski resigned as rector, or head priest, of Krakow’s prestigious Wawel Cathedral, the burial site of…

Mary Jane is headed to Rome for a week in February, and is looking for suggestions of musical events. Gerald is going later in the spring and has questions, too. Most have been answered in his comments box already, but you might have some info to add. Speaking of Rome, the new Vatican Museuem admission…

A team of artists has been working for several months to restore a mural that was painted over an altar in a Catholic church in Keene, NH. You can see some impressive photos and an account of their work at this blog. For a quick look: Before After The definition of "begs the question." Why…
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