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In the NYDaily News, no less: – a spread of Lennart Nilsson’s prenatal photos

We’ve blogged a bit on the documentary Deliver Us From Evil, to go into release here tomorrow – the film focuses on one Irish priest, O’Grady, who worked in the Stockton diocese.  When I last blogged about this, I said that the most valuable thing about the film would be the presentation of the filmed…

You can read biographies of all those to be canonized on Sunday here – and it’s worth doing. The lives of these men and women show so clearly that the life of holiness – of a saint – is anything but quiet, conformist passivity – the stereotype of one deeply committed to God. We know…

This Sunday, Blessed Mother Theodore Guerin will be canonized at St. Peter’s – here’s the Archdiocese of Indianapolis Mother Guerin Central page. Anne-Thérèse was nearly 25 years old when she entered the Sisters of Providence of Ruillé-sur-Loir, France, a young community of women religious who served as teachers and cared for thesick poor. While teaching…

From the Archdiocese: Pope Benedict XVI has informed Cardinal Seán O’Malley that Reverend John A. Dooher, Pastor of St. Mary Parish in Dedham and Reverend Robert Hennessey, Pastor of Most Holy Redeemer in East Boston, have been named Auxiliary Bishops for the Archdiocese of Boston. Cardinal Seán received this news with gratitude for the Holy…

Where is this church being built? (Click for bigger, better-proportioned version) Answer after the jump

On Friday Pope Benedict XVI (bio – news) will meet with the Dalai Lama in a private audience on October 13. The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader will be in Rome to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Rome. At this meeting with the Holy Father he will be accompanied by several aides. Cardinal…

Catholic News Service: Pope Benedict XVI is preparing to expand permission to use the Tridentine Mass, the pre-Vatican II rite favored by traditionalist groups, said an informed Vatican source. The pope is expected to issue a document "motu proprio," or on his own initiative, which will address the concerns of "various traditionalists," said the source,…

How and why: Seems that he basically kept all the cash given in the collections and never reported it. Skehan appeared to operate under a system of greed and generosity. He routinely kept $1,000 to $3,000 a week for himself, depending on the size of the collection. But he also gave $100 cash a week…

A few weeks ago, Bishop Tod Brown of Orange County issued a pastoral letter which is called The Pastoral Letter or, in the DVD produced to accompany it The Letter – both of which are so pretentious as to be totally off-putting.  But we’ll put that aside – the subtitle of The Letter is "Learning,…
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