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In case you didn’t know it, Jen Ambrose has been back in China for a few weeks and is posting about it in her usual fascinating, witty fashion.

A brief profile of a parish in Arlington, VA. Of just as much, if not more interest is the video with the article, in which the gentleman at the center of the piece – Dr. Thu Bui – tells the story of his conversion to Catholicism.

Religious and Ethics Newsweekly has posted their streaming video of the report on the All Saints Vigil at the Dominican House of Studies Video of the homily – well worth a look, about 15 minutes of your time. And while you’re in a multi-media kind of mood, hop back over to Vatican Radio where there’s…

More English Catholic news: Peter Snow and Ralph Grimston met a grisly end atop York’s Micklegate Bar. The pair were last seen gazing down at passers-by in the street below. Their severed heads had been attached to spikes. Since that gruesome day, their faces have not been seen for more than 400 years. They will…

Glastonbury, a small town in the south of England, is a center of mythic/mystical/neopagan activity. A sort of Lilydale or Cassadage across the Pond. Last weekend, a group called Youth2000 sponsored a retreat in Glastonbury that drew about 300 attendees. Conflicts between the pagans and Christians have made the news. The Christians were visiting for…

An unveiling in Germany: Catholic priests and monks, the bulk of them Polish, who were killed by the Nazis in a concentration camp near Berlin were commemorated Saturday with the unveiling of a stone sculpture in the presence of Cardinal Jozef Glemp of Poland. The sculpture is engraved with the names of 96 clergy who…

Today, Pope Benedict offered a Mass in Suffrage for Cardinals and others who died over the past year. Here’s a brief report from Vatican Radio – just a minute or two, but you can hear the Pope reciting some of the names of the Cardinals who have passed away. It is very poignant. Teresa at…

Today, the Baltimore Basilica – the first Cathedral in the United States (although not in the Americas, of course) will reopen after years of restoration work. The historic Baltimore Basilica, built from 1806-1821, was the first great metropolitan Cathedral constructed in America after the adoption of the Constitution. America’s first cathedral, officially known as the…

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Coming to the Vatican in the next few weeks Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams on 11/23 Greek Orthodox Patriarch Archbishop Christodoulos Archbishop Christodoulos’ Dec. 14 visit will be the first ever official visit by a Greek church leader to the Vatican, with which the eastern Orthodox church — of which the Church of Greece is a…
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