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An unofficial translation of the Pope’s homily today at the All Saints’ Mass: Today, the Church celebrates her dignity as "mother of saints, image of the supernal city" (A. Manzoni), and manifests its beauty as the immaculate spouse of Christ, spring and model of every sanctity. Certainly she does not lack for unruly, even outright…

From the Dominican students at the House of Studies: How to put on your own Vigil of All Saints   Every year at our Vigil of All Saints, we meet people who say: “This is great!  Why don’t we do this everywhere?”  In fact, every year, we get inquiries from around the country asking us…

Dawn Eden posts a moving video – a young woman’s testimony at a Waco City Council Meeting – on how sidewalk counselers outside an abortion clinic impacted her life – and her son’s. A long time ago, I was sort of involved on the national level of Feminists for Life – we’re talking 20 years…

Go to the American Papist for a detailed look at how Governor Granholm’s trying to play it.

Today, the Pope offered Mass in St. Peter’s, preached, and had a few words at the Angelus afterwards. No full texts in English available yet, but here’s the AsiaNews report on Mass: The second improvisation came as the pope was talking about the Beatitudes, the Gospel of today’s Mass. The Gospel of the Beatitudes is…

Gahswin attended the All Saints Vigil at the Dominican House of Studies last night, and reports. The invitation letter warned us to get there early. I showed up (with some friends) at a little after 7:00. The chapel was already packed. We managed to find seats, separated, in a corner just outside the choir. (At…

Kansas City Catholic is on it. Yesterday around here it was balmy; today the chilly wind would not let the mercury rise above 50 degrees. But something is falling even faster than the temperature in Missouri: support for Amendment 2, the clone and kill bill that would constitutionally protect embryonic stem cell research–the cold fusion…

The word is going out and around and about – a move to write to Pope Benedict and communicate your views on the rumored liturgical developments. Tough, since they are rumored, but rumors that have taken a solid shape since 10 French bishops publicly indicated it was coming – by disagreeing with whatever it is.…

…before they get returned to the library and I forget about them. Although this first one might get purchased at some point: This book was published this summer – it is really lovely, and I’m sort of surprised no one thought of doing this before – a collection of legends from the Texas missions. Kimmel…

Trick or treaters started arriving at our place before ours were ready to depart. Michael the Baby was very confused as to why Mommy and Daddy kept giving these strange children candy but ignored him as he raced up to them with his pumpkin. What sense does that make? Eventually he got the message that…
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