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John Allen explains: The back-story to what happened is that on Sunday evening, the Secretariat of State sent the 2005 draft up to the papal apartment in preparation for Tuesday’s meeting. Hearing nothing, they presumed that Benedict intended to use it, and gave it to the Press Office and L’Osservatore Romano for distribution. In fact,…

In the NCR(egiter), Eric Scheske takes a look at blogging priests Eric’s own blog.

Baby Michael has his 2-year checkup. To see how he’s busting up that growth chart. Or…not. Later!

Jonah Goldberg’s piece on the stubborness of religion: For decades, students of modernization subscribed to an overriding assumption that, to paraphrase sociologist Peter Berger, more modernity means less religion. In the 1960s (and 1930s and 1890s), liberals were convinced that religion was dying out thanks to the new religion of Progress. But as Berger recently…

The Ecumencial Patriarchate of Constantinople has set up a website for the Pope’s visit to Turkey.

To benefit a Rwandan orphanage The calendar, to be released Nov. 23 by the Catholic magazine Famiglia Cristiana, features 14 photographs of Pope Benedict taken in August at the papal summer villa in Castel Gandolfo. The calendar will sell in Italy for 5 euros (US$6.40) with 1 euro (US$1.28) from each calendar going directly to…

The Nativity Story will premeire….at the Vatican. The Nativity Story will become the first film ever to premiere at the Vatican, the film’s distributor has announced. The film, which is due to be released December 1, will be shown on Sunday, November 26 at the Vatican’s Pope Paul VI Hall to an audience of appproximately…

Heard on the radio while I was walking (it’s 71 degrees here today!), at the top of the hour. I’m not sure if it was the local news guy or a national feed. But here’s how it went down: (Archived sound byte) Ed Bradley: I’ll see you next week on 60 Minutes News Reader Guy:…

Over at Mere Comments, Lee Podles posts on an article in Der Spiegel about a Hungarian Cardinal who was an informant for the Communist government for decades: Not only was Paskai informing on his fellow priests, the majority of the Hungarian delegation to the Second Vatican Council were in fact secret police informers, and in…

After that whole Swiss debacle a couple of days ago, we’re a little behind on figuring out What Does The Pope Really Say? So, in the interest of catching up . the VIS summary of what he REALLY said to the Swiss bishops. This part, on liturgy, is particulary succinct: On the subject of the…
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