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A SFGate article on Divine Word College in Iowa – a college whose purpose is formation of young men for missionary work with the Divine Word Missionaries. The article’s focus is the students of Vietnamese origens, who make up 2/3 of the student body: Although only 10 percent of Vietnamese in Vietnam are Christians, in…

One really wonders how this is all going to end…Anglican clergy put their feet down. Liberal bishops who support homosexual priests are to be barred from entering some churches and money intended for Anglican coffers will be withheld. In a dramatic escalation in the Church of England’s civil war over homosexual clergy, scores of evangelical…

Saw it today with Katie. I will blog on it later, probably tomorrow, but I think the sum of my reaction is essentially… Well. That was….odd. Now, I just have to think about why I think that. I suspect it’s because there simply was no overarching, driving artistic vision to the project. It has a…

Milingo admits Moon support. The renegade Roman Catholic archbishop who was excommunicated by the Vatican after he installed married priests as bishops acknowledged today that the Rev. Sun Myung Moon was supporting his crusade against mandatory celibacy. At a weekend conference of married priests, Zambian Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo distributed a statement to participants headlined "Thanks,"…

MIchael’s working on a book w/Fr. Groeschel, and is inviting your participation.

…comments closed, probably no new posts ’til tonight. Because it’s about 2 weeks until Christmas. Ack.

"Pro-crast-i-nation…" Well, no, not quite. But yet: The Warholizer via (for me) the deadliest Time-Waster of all (since I’m not a game player) – The Generator Blog Okay, okay:

The CNS article: After the Vatican decision, Bishop Bruskewitz said he felt a duty to lead the people under his pastoral care away from organizations perilous to the faith. "Parents have to tell children that they can’t test everything in the medicine cabinet or drink everything under the sink," the bishop explained. "The church is…

John Allen makes sense: Why the explanatory vacuum? The answer, at least implicitly, seems to be the following: This pope is his own gloss. In other words, precisely because this was Joseph Ratzinger, it is difficult to imagine that the prayer at the Blue Mosque, at least on his side, had anything to do with…

This is from yesterday’s WSJ – many thanks to the readers who passed it on. The link will only be active for about a week more, so read it now! The Congregation of the Children of the Immaculate Conception (appropriate for blogging today!)  has purchased and runs a pharma lab outside of Milan: The Rev.…

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