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Monastic scuffling. THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Two groups of monks clashed on Wednesday at a monastery facility in Mt. Athos, resulting in at least seven injuries, police said. Fighting broke out between a group of rebel monks occupying facilities of the 1,000-year-old monastery of Esphigmenou, and a group of legally recognized monks on the outside.…

I wrote this for NRO last year. A couple of months ago, my oldest son told me that he’d been surfing the net around Christmas last year, reading things, and came upon this piece. He started reading and thought, "This sounds like something Mom would write" – because, you know it’s called "The Dark Side…

What are your favorites? Terry Teachout lists his favorite recordings Michael Linton talks Messiah over at First Things Me? My favorite Christmas-themed music tends to the medieval, the Renaissance, the Appalachian-tinged, and of course, (Click, if you like. Stay away if you’re…well, whatever. This video service makes the video start automatically when you post it…

In the WaPo, Harold Myerson takes on the bigotry of the NoVa breakaway Episcopalians. By being totally non-bigoted and open-minded himself. The alliance of the Fairfax Phobics with Archbishop Restaurant Monitor is just the latest chapter in the global revolt against modernity and equality and, more specifically, in the formation of the Orthodox International. The…

Good stuff on various points of interest from Vatican Radio: Random interviews with pilgrims in St. Peter’s as to why they are in Rome for Christmas Cardinal Stafford, the Major Penitentiary, who gave such an interesting talk at the USCCB , on forgiveness and Christmas.…"The Sacrament of Mercy." Cardinal Arinze on getting the Christmas message…

Take it! Via a really interesting website – a valuable resource called Mary Meets Dolly: A Catholic’s Guide to Genetics, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology.

Every day is full of them: Discovery, Day 1: The little one is discovered in the bathtub with his big brother. Trouble is, the little one already had his bath and had been dressed in his pajamas. Discovery Day 2: CRASH. The little one is discovered next to the Christmas tree. Which is horizontal. An…

This is good. If you don’t have time to read it today, file it, save it and keep it in your head to send it on to folks who still don’t get what this pontificate is all about, who are clinging to the Rottweiler imagery or, on the other hand, who are summarizing 2006-the-Year-in-Pope as…

AsiaNews on the GA today: Today’s general audience was rife with the sound of Italian bagpipes and songs of Christmas, to which the pope dedicated his reflection shared with 8,000 joyous people who filled Paul VI Hall in the  Vatican. The pope was greeted with considerable warmth from the moment he arrived. He made his…

It was announced by the Vatican that the resignation of Bishop William Friend of Shreveport had been accepted (age). No replacement was named.
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