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On Saturday, the Vatican announced the creation of a new eparchy of the Chaldean Rite Catholic Church: Australian and New Zealand Catholics who follow the Chaldean Rite will have their own Oceania eparchy or diocese and bishop, the Holy See announced on Saturday. The President of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, Archbishop Philip Wilson, welcomed…

Pardon me, but I do think Thomas the Tank Engine has got to be the most boring children’s character/series ever invented. Not even counting the fact that there are a slew of trains with faces in the stories and who the heck can tell the difference between them all? I got a book or two…

Did anyone watch it? I forgot. "The Monastery" being the Learning Channel’s attempt to duplicate the BBC program of the same name. The show’s website The Monastery of Christ in the Desert (And those of you who have been hanging around The Internets since the beginning know that the Monastery of Christ in the Desert…

No, it’s got nothing to do with Halloween – finances.  In a story about how the Archdiocese of Chicago is trying to take a strong defensive line against financial improprieties. (Actually, I’m not so sure that this definition of "occult compensation, offered in the story, is correct. Read the old CE definition and see what…

The priest at the Mass we attended this morning is diocesan coordinator of the Pontifical Missions Societies – he preached his usual succinct homily, and this line jumped out: "If you could read the hundreds of appeals I receive from missionaries all over the world – asking for help with their work, and even for…

David Brooks reviews Sullivan’s book: (Remember, Sullivan is all about a "conservatism of doubt") As for Sullivan’s conservatism of doubt, I’m sympathetic. I know only two self-confessed Oakeshottians in Washington — Sullivan and me. And yet Oakeshott’s modesty can never be the main strain in one’s thinking, though it should always be the warning voice…

On Saturday, Pope Benedict traveled across town to officially open the school year at the Pontifical Lateran University. His remarks, faithfully translated by Teresa Benedetta at PRF: He spoke, naturally, of the academic life, reminding his listeners that the point is Truth: Indeed, the University safeguards the wealth of tradition that remains alive through the…

…last week it was in favor of independence for Scotland, and now he’s saying that Muslims should apologize: THE leader of Scotland’s Roman Catholics, Cardinal Keith O’Brien, has called for Muslims to apologise for the 9/11 and 7/7 bomb attacks, declaring that the public should not have to live "in fear of attack" from believers…

….excuse me while I dash one off to ABC. Katie just got home from going to some haunted cave thing with a friend. She flipped on Turner Classics. The tail end of Gilda. She switched to ABC – showing Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Watched a few minutes. Commercial break. For this. An…

Today is the feast of St. Gaspar del Bufalo, founder of the Society of the Precious Blood. No surprise that a Catholic saint has an interesting life story – his is one, not well-enough known in this country, except among those who have been touched by the various arms of the Society. His life: During…
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