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Blogger and former Anglican priest David Palmer shares his conversion story. I believe that John Henry Newman when asked why he became a Catholic, said something along the lines that becoming a Catholic wasn’t little thing that could just be explained between two courses of a meal. And indeed it isn’t. There are so many…

Catholics outnumber other religious groups (not Protestants as a whole, but as divided up into denominations)  in Congress (this is not new – I believe Catholics have numerically dominated for a while) Roman Catholics are the largest single U.S. religious denomination among members of the new U.S. Congress which also includes two Buddhists and a…

Over the past few weeks, controversy has grown over the archbishop-elect of Warsaw, Stanislaw Wielgus (due to be installed on Sunday). John Allen summarizes: Controversy surrounding the alleged collaboration of the archbishop-elect of Warsaw, Stanislaw Wielgus, with Poland’s Communist-era security forces deepened on Tuesday, with the publication of documents purporting to show that as early…

Today, Pope Benedict visited a soup kitchen – near the Termini station, run by Caritas of Rome. Those who give and those who receive in the daily work of Caritas experience the beauty of the love that Jesus brought and feel “the depth of the joy that derives from it, a joy that is certainly…

The continuing tragedy: For many Christians in Iraq, flight is the only option. The United Nations estimates that about 40 percent of the more than million Iraqis who have emigrated are Christians. That’s an astounding number for a group who made up perhaps four percent of Iraq’s pre-war population. Some Iraqi Christians believe the number…

Orthodox monks state their opinion: Monks at a reclusive Orthodox sanctuary criticized a landmark visit to the Vatican by Greece’s church leader Archbishop Christodoulos last month as endangering centuries-old church traditions. "We bear a heavy responsibility before the faithful people of Greece who regard (us) as being the inviolable guardian of holy tradition," the monks…

At the Walters in Baltimore, through the end of January: For the first time, the Walters will display its superb collection of illuminated missals, liturgical manuscripts and printed books for the celebration of the Catholic Mass.  This exhibition of manuscripts, printed books, and altar furnishings will investigate the changing imagery of the missal in the…

…we’re talking to you! Fr. Jim points us to a brief entry at the Reason blog (ironically) about the medieval celebrations, taking place during the Octave of Christmas, coinciding mostly with the Feast of the Circumcision, in which social – particularly ecclesiological – order was reversed and a "Lord of Misrule" was crowned. From the…

The Siena Institute has a new blog – well, a blog. They didn’t have an old one.  So, yes, it’s new. "Intentional Disciples" will be maintained by Sherry Weddell and others, and it’s well worth a bookmark and passing on. Here’s a link to the Catherine of Siena Institute.

Today at the Papa Ratzinger Forum, Teresa posts translations of two editorials from Avvenire – the newspaper of the Italian bishops’ conference. Both take the perspective that in the execution, justice was done, after a fashion: Was justice done? No. The mothers, wives and families of those 300,000 victims will not be recompensed for their…
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