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A couple of lighter posts…(then I really will work on some promised heavier posts. ) This past Sunday, Katie and I took a few minutes out of our very busy lives to go to the local art house theater , the Cinema Center, to attend one of the events in a 2-day "Lombard-a-palooza." Carole Lombard…

John Allen: In the early twentieth century, North Korea was home to a small but flourishing Catholic community, with two territorial dioceses and a territorial abbacy entrusted to the Benedictine Order. During the 1950-53 Korean War, however, the Catholic presence was all but snuffed out – every priest in the country was exiled, imprisoned or…

We’ve been sporadically following the MIssouri battle over Amendment 2 – a battle which just might overtake California’s similar process in 2004 as winner of "Most Deceptive." Let’s try to do a wrap-up. Amendment 2 would essentially write the "right" to conduct research involving cloning human embryos into the Missouri state constitution. It is, of…

Elizabeth Lev’s column on constrasting sites in Rome this week: Talk about angels and demons … this week has treated us to a fascinating study in the sacred and profane life of the Eternal City. The first odd coupling this week was the juxtaposition of Rome’s first international film festival the same week as the…

I want to do a large post gathering as much breaking election n’ Catholic news as I can without taking all day to do it. So just to remind myself to do this in the morning, I’ll stick this post here with a couple of stories from today: The Madison diocese and Bishop Morlino are…

…making the Taste page of the WSJ. A couple details their problems in trying to get…a Tridentine Nuptial Mass in Manhattan Thus the greater New York metropolitan area is currently permitted only a handful of weekly celebrations of the Tridentine Mass. Unfortunately, finding a parish for our own nuptial Mass was a painful process. A…

A NY court ruling: New York State’s highest court ruled yesterday that the Roman Catholic Church and other religious organizations must abide by a state law that requires most employee health insurance policies to cover the cost of contraception. The 6-to-0 decision by the Court of Appeals upheld rulings by the State Supreme Court and…

NBC won’t show Madonna on the cross: NBC will still show a performance of"Live to Tell,"but use different camera angles so that Madonna isn’t seen until she gets off the cross, the network said. The pop star, whose video for"Like a Prayer"likewise left some religious leaders cold two decades ago, explained earlier that she wasn’t…

Go here to cast your vote. Left standing as candidates for the Greatest Catholic Theologian of the past 150 years: Joseph Ratzinger Yves Congar John Henry Newman Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange Gustavo Gutierrez Aidan Nichols Henri de Lubac Hans Urs von Balthasar
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