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Richard Dawkins, in a letter to the Scotland Sunday Herald:   IN THE 1920s and 1930s, scientists from both the political left and right would not have found the idea of designer babies particularly dangerous – though of course they would not have used that phrase. Today, I suspect that the idea is too dangerous…

A reader writes: I couldn’t help noticing that ourparish did NOT sing King of Glory this feast of Christ the King — atleast not at the Mass I attended. Is it just possible that the mockery heaped on it through thehysterical Colbert YouTube video has laid that little number to rest?

I am recovering from Thanksgiving (which just means virtually no time alone for days and days  which is exhausting for an introvert) and am trying to adjust to a new contact prescription, which I got on Saturday. It’s sort of a challenge, and I may need to go back and re-adjust. Plus I need to…

Spero News has a really excellent page up with many articles, original and linked from elsewhere.  They’ll be giving this trip strong coverage.

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Father Z was there! An on-the-spot report. In fact, the audience tonight was very responsive. They burst into applause when the baby Jesus was born, as one might expect, and laughed at the appropriate moments of comic relief, provided not terribly subtly by the three Wise Guys, er um, Men. In fact their humorous repartee…

Istanbul is 7 hours ahead of EST. The Vatican’s page on the visit The program EWTN’s schedule of coverage begins Tuesday at 6am EST "The Presentation of the Missal" – this is a must-read if you really want to understand the heart of this Apostolic Journey. From Archbishop Piero Marini, Master of Pontifical Liturgical Ceremonies,…

George Weigel in Newsweek: He points out that, although the focus of much media coverage will be on the Pope and Islam, that doesn’t cover the primary purpose of the visit: Although the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople does not exercise the jurisdictional and doctrinal authority in world Orthodoxy that the papacy exercises in world Catholicism,…

Pope Benedict, today: Just two days before his trip to Turkey, Benedict XVI today asked an enormous crowd of pilgrims gathered in St Peter’s Square for the Angelus to accompany him “in prayer, so that this pilgrimage may bear all the fruits that God desires”. The voyage of the pope to Ankara, Ephesus and Istanbul…

So, we went to our local Science Museum (which I have never, I’m sorry to say, been a fan of. God bless them for their efforts, but the great setting (an old power plant) just isn’t served well by the bulk of the exhibits, most of which are very well-worn by enthusiastic users and not…
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