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CNS story about Italian businesses: Perhaps it is not so unusual that the Vatican, surrounded by Italy, named a parking garage after a saint. A recent nationwide study by the Milan Chamber of Commerce showed that some 21,000 Italian companies are named after saints — 1,000 more than in 2005. The study was published on…

Admits to buying drugs, but denies using and sex. (That’s the headline at the Colorado Springs Gazette – the actual page, though, is either loading very slowly or not coming up at all – I imagine traffic is VERY heavy.) Here’s a better link. Haggard was driving out of his home with his wife Gayle…

Gerald has the goods. Let your inner child come out to play…For those newly arrived at Corpus Christi since last October31st you may not be aware of our most wonderfulcelebration of Halloween on the weekend PRIOR toOctober 31st…which this year will be NEXT weekend,October 28-29. In anticipation of All Hallows Eveparishioners are invited to come…

Long-time readers know that I occasionally drag out this feature, in which I ask readers to share their experiences at Mass, focusing primarily on music, homilies and anything "special" that went on. As much as possible, we try to keep it a no-discussion thread, and simply report. Why? Because some of us are afflicted with…

Vatican says that Turkish PM’s absence not a problem: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan might be absent from the country during Benedict XVI’s visit, to attend a NATO summit in Latvia. Amid media speculation about Erdogan’s absence, the Vatican press office published a statement today to downplay the fact. In the note, the Holy…

Yesterday, Pope Benedict prayed at the tombs of several previous Popes, in the crypt under St. Peter’s, the Vatican Grottos: Pius XII Paul VI John Paul I John Paul II Then today, he headed over to the Pontifical Gregorian University A very young student! The text of the speech is here, in Italian. No translation…

You all have heard about the bizareness related to Rev. Ted Haggard, president of the National Association of Evangelicals (well, make that former president) and pastor of the New Life Church megachurch in Colorado Springs. He has been accused of having a encounters with a male prostitue in Denver for the past 3 years. There’s…

Into the Great Silence – the German documentary about Carthusians, which has received rave reviews and drawn big audiences in Europe, finally has a US distributor. In addition, Zeitgeist films has acquired the U.S. distribution rights for the film Into Great Silence, a documentary about the Carthusian Order monastery in the French Alps. Cinematical interviewed…

If you don’t have the itch to go to Rome…this might do it. Elizabeth Lev’s enticing description of the exhibit on the construction of the "new" St. Peter’s, begun (at least on paper) in 1506. Near the entrance, the first object on display is the astounding walk-in model of St. Peter’s dome designed by Michelangelo…

Or….the Chastity Rome-Chick Blues. From Dawn Eden, of course!
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