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Nina Shea at NRO on Iraq and religious freedom. Iraq’s government has not been notably effective in protecting anyone, and its stance toward the Christians and other small minorities has been abysmal. The Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, was quoted earlier this year urging kidnappers to target Christian women instead of Muslims. After…

John Allen is working on a new book – on mega-trends impacting and shaping the RC church in the 21st century – and he’d like your input on the trends he’s identified.

Last year, the Pope’s annual speech to the members of the Curia made news for two reason: one, there was a notable delay in the release of its text. Secondly, in it, Benedict reflected on the need to re-evaluate and resituate the Second Vatican Council within the broader context of 2000 years of Catholic tradition…

William Mahrt’s comments during and following the Consultation on a Revision of Music in Catholic Worship, sponsored by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Committee on the Liturgy, Subcommittee on Music in the Liturgy, October Chicago, Illinois, October 9, 2006. There are many aspects of Music in Catholic Worship that need revision. The purposes…

A little slice of New York life: Patrick Michael Ward’s is the face that many visitors to New York City see smiling at them in photographs they take back to their homes around the world. He is the police officer who guards St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the man in a blue uniform before a limestone and…

Obviously, a must-listen on the BBC3’s Early Music Show. (Programs are available for listening a week after the original broadcast.)

This evening was the Christmas program at school. I lurked in the back. Actually, since the Kindergarten was DEAD LAST in the program, I went to the Guerin Adoration Chapel for 30 minutes, thinking that at that point surely we would have made progress, but no…they had just finished all the preliminaries (bands, show choir,…

Hey, I’m shutting down comments until after Christmas. I will be posting here and there – I have a couple of book reviews I really want to get done – but closing down comments means one less thing to do for me. And for you!

The Knights of Columbus have two nice spots. One here The other – an appeal to help children in need – here.

Among his many other gifts, talents and offerings, Chris Johnson presents a simple primer for those of you who want to include HTML tags in your comments, but don’t know how. How to link, italicize, bold, etc.
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