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Jesus really is my boyfriend: John Podhoretz, at The Corner: From Variety, news of a new romantic comedy called Prodigal Son: "Story revolves around a workaholic single woman who is set up on a date by her mother. Her date, a handsome, kind and caring carpenter who works at Ikea, turns out to be Jesus…

Rachel Balducci’s "Testosterhome" blog is up for "Best Parenting Blog" at the 2006 Weblog Awards. Go vote!

Naturally enough, it being a Marian feastday and all, the Pope prayed the Angelus with pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square today and had some words: "Full of grace" – in the original Greek, kecharitomene – it is the most beautiful name for Mary, a name which God Himself gave her, to show that ever and…

Teresa Benedetto transcribes a Vatican Radio interview with one of the bishops from Lazio (the region in which Rome is located), who made their ad limina visit this week: The ‘rite’ is very simple. You enter, the Pope shakes your hand, photographs are taken because of course one wants to keep an evidence of this…

David’s Scott article on the dogma. He does an excellent job of setting the historical context. explaining the conflicts over the idea among theologians through history, and so on: One hundred and fifty years later, the dogma of the Immaculate Conception can be understood even more clearly as the Church’s prophetic response to the modern…

Reported elsewhere throughout the week, but a good summary in the Telegraph today: The tomb of St Paul the Apostle has been found under one of Rome’s largest churches and the stone coffin will shortly be raised to the surface to allow pilgrims to see it. The remains of St Paul, one of the Christian…

We blogged an earlier review/description of the new collection of Graham Greene writings that had originally appeared in The Tablet. But we’ve got to blog this one, too – by David Lodge. The review also treats another new book on Greene, although that’s not made clear in the beginning. Anyway: In the eyes of many…

Cardinal Bertone, in an interview with the Italian bishops’ publication L’Avvenire, as reported by John Allen. (got it?) Finally, Cardinale asked Bertone about commentaries on Benedict’s trip from conservative European intellectuals known as “devout atheists,” who are not religious believers but who nevertheless support parts of the moral and social message of the Catholic Church.…

A Vatican-"endorsed" video news service from Zenit, which as most of you know is connected to the Legionaries of Christ. I’m not sure what significance the "Vatican-endorsed" part of it means, and the article is really not clear on that. Is there money? Is it "sponsored?" Does it have the official Vatican Stamp of Approval?…

CWN reports that the Vatican has confirmed Lincoln Bishop Bruskewitz’s excommunication of members of Call to Action. The Nebraska chapter of Call to Action appealed the bishop’s decision to the Vatican. In his November 24 letter to Bishop Bruskewitz, Cardinal Re reports that Vatican’s finding that the disciplinary action was “properly taken.” The Vatican has…
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