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Aid to the Church in Need will help out: Catholic aid organization, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), has announced it will provide financial assistance for an effort by the Patriarch of Venice to provide an Arabic-language translation of Pope Benedict’s weekly public audience’s through the Oasis International Centre. “What occurred to the words…

really slow news day…

I didn’t watch LOST last night. I sort of forgot until too close to the end. Katie’s in the frantic last days of Into the Woods rehearsal, so she’s not home in the evenings, and without her every-20-minute "Lost is on tonight!" it slipped my mind. I do know what happened, though, because I scanned…

A notice: The Orestes Brownson Council (http://www.nd.edu/~obcnd) of theUniversity of Notre Dame will be sponsoring a solemn Latin RequiemMass, celebrated according to the Pauline rite, with full Gregorianchant performed by the Notre Dame Gregorian Schola. The Mass iscosponsored by People of Devotion, the Jacques Maritain Center, andthe Notre Dame Department of Theology, and will take…

The new Weekly Standard has a review  of volume IX of Newman’s collected letters. (Which is interesting because this apparently was released in May, and volume X, which covers the final two years of his life as an Anglican, is due to be published next week.) (Article only available to subscribers. Portions quoted here.) After…

Get this: The former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey of Clifton, has been banned from one of the oldest cathedrals in Britain after accusations that he has become an “instrument of disunity”. Lord Carey, who has become a champion of orthodoxy in the Anglican Church since stepping down from the top job in 2002, was…

Turkish Prime Minister to Estonia: In late September, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters that when Pope Benedict XVI visits his country later this month, he would “set him straight” with regard to his views on Islam. In the event, however, Erdogan has decided to forgo delivering a theology lesson to Joseph Ratzinger,…

On the "Vatican permission" received by that Quebecois priest: The Diocese of Joliette has issued a press release after the mainstream media erroneously reported that the Vatican had given permission for a Catholic priest who supports abortion and homosexual ‘marriage’ to run for public office.  Both a Canadian Press story, published in several papers, and…

A review of a new book: Who doesn’t know the difference between right and wrong? Yet that essential knowledge, generally assumed to come from parental teaching or religious or legal instruction, could turn out to have a quite different origin. Primatologists like Frans de Waal have long argued that the roots of human morality are…

Today, Catholics around the world visit cemeteries to honor and remember their dead, as well as to pray for them. From Poland: Although the tradition of visiting the graves is not confined to Poland, the way it is celebrated here is considered by many people unique. Robert Gamble is an American publisher living and working…
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