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Cardinal Bertone muses: Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone (bio – news), who is well known as a passionate soccer enthusiast, spoke about his favorite game in a conversation with reporters in the town of Alassio. The cardinal said that he thought the Vatican could put together a “magnificent” team, drawing mostly on the Brazilian students at pontifical…

The Advent issue of this excellent online lliterary journal is online, with excellent essays, fiction, art and poetry. Oh, and I’m there, too.

A video version, posted at YouTube and, here, at the creator, Sr. Anne Flanagan of the Daughters of St. Paul.

At last, here’s the full text of Father Cantalamessa’s homily. I’ve closed off discussion on the threads below, so if you like, continue it here. The full context of his words makes it even more interesting. First, on other matters, before we get to the penance. This is a marvelous section on JEsus, with an…

Last week, various stories in the European press suggested that we’ll see the motu propio regarding the Mass of Pius V (what I’m calling it today!), as well as the Apostolic Exhortation related to the 2005 Synod on the Eucharist in the next month. Who knows! There were some interesting developments over the weekend though.…

John Allen on the new Archbishop of Toronto: Collins is known as an inspiring speaker, and Rosica said his record on that score in Edmonton was impressive. “He did much of what Cardinal Martini did in Milan,” Rosica said. “He would fill the Cathedral on Sunday evenings with young people, doing a Lectio Divina and…

Well, the big weekend news from the Anglican front was the vote by two parishes in Truro and Falls Church, Virginia – two large, historic and flourishing churches – to break from the ECUSA and associate themselves with the Nigerian province. This is really such an interesting story for all of us, Anglican or not,…

Later this week… The Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor; the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Dr Rowan Williams; Primate of the Armenian Church of Great Britain Bishop Nathan Hovhannisian and the Free Churches Moderator, the Reverend David Coffey are undertaking an Advent pilgrimage to the Holy Land. There will some sort of online…

From the Charlote (NC) paper, the story of a home for persons with disabilities in Belmont (home of Belmont Abbey College).Here’s the facility’s website and the story of its origins: Doctors did not expect the baby girl to live long beyond her December 20, 1955, birth. She was born medically fragile, with multiple disabilities. If…

At our historically German-ethnic parish, the priest wore rose vestments (of the more pinkish hue). I finally saw that while there is no actual Advent wreath (which, of course, is not required by anyone or anything anyway), there are four candles arranged on stands in the sanctuary in a sort of tasteful circular setting. (By…
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