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Amid the rest of the bloodshed and kidnappings, another priest kidnapped in Baghdad: Another Chaldean priest was abducted yesterday in Baghdad. Fr Samy Al Raiys, whose disappearance was announced last night, is in the hands of unknown men who picked him up near his home. The Chaldean Patriarchate of Baghdad, which reported the abduction, launched…

Let’s see…Well, first let’s do a special. Let’s call it a "Woman’s Pack." The Catholic Woman’s Book of Days and De-Coding Mary Magdalene for $25.00, which includes shipping. Go here and scroll down to the light blue box for that. And don’t forget…Here.Now. for the young adults/older teens in your life.

A brief reflection on last weekend’s conference on modernity, sponsored by the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture.

Sentences, we have sentences. Lots of them. Michael the Baby’s verbal skilz are advancing by the day. He’s reached that point – that wonderful point – at which he will stand in front of you in great excitement and/or great seriousness and talk for a minute straight, relating something which clearly means a great deal…

At the airport in Izmer, found by Teresa, from Die Welt

Perhaps the world’s oldest living priest passed away: Father Konrad Fuchs, who has died aged 109, was reputedly the world’s oldest living Roman Catholic priest; he was also the second oldest living German and one of only eight known remaining German veterans of the First World War. It was following his own traumatising experience as…

Informal reactions, recorded over at Looking Closer Conclusion: incredibly violent (no surprise)…but to what purpose? Is the story "worth" the violence or not? That seems to be the question.

30,000 in LA: More photos From the AP: More than 30,000 faithful packed a college stadium Sunday to commemorate the 475th anniversary of the appearance of the Virgin of Guadalupe to an Indian peasant in Mexico. Attendees chanted “Long live the Virgin of Guadalupe” as Cardinal Roger Mahony celebrated a special Mass at East Los…

What’s going on in your house for Advent and the run-up to Christmas? What devotions are you doing, either personally or as a family? What do you feel good about? What do you feel like a total loser about?

Josh Trevino’s report from last week: Finally, it comes time for Communion. My father asks me if I will go, and I reply that I probably should not. He urges me to, and I give in. Now, we file forward, toward the Ecumenical Patriarch His All-Holiness Bartholomew I, holder of the last office of the…
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