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CNS on a recent Vatican-sponsored convocation: Specifically, Pope Benedict asked the Vatican academy to gather top-notch neurologists and other experts together to present statistics on cases of brain death. The pope wanted to know if the growing science of transplantation had influenced the ascertainment of brain death. He also asked to see how the criteria…

The text of Casey’s speech at CUA is here.

Fr. Stephanus, O.S.B. has translated an editorial that appeared in Corriere della Sera, written by a leading Italian Muslim: To deny the historical reality is simply foolish, and it can generate nothing but foolishness. I recall that one of the most notable contemporary Islamologists, the Egyptian Mohammad Said El Eshmawi, said to me in the…

From the new Secretary of State: Given the reaction in Muslim quarters to certain passages of the Holy Father’s address at the University of Regensburg, and the clarifications and explanations already presented through the Director of the Holy See Press Office, I would like to add the following: – The position of the Pope concerning…

The NYTimes demands an apology: (underlining and red stuff my emphasis. I’m really offended at outraged that the New York Times has insulted the leader of my religious tradition. I demand an apology! More tomorrow.) There is more than enough religious anger in the world. So it is particularly disturbing that Pope Benedict XVI has…

I had about a third more visitors today than normal, mostly due, I’m sure, to folks searching for information on the shocking Muslim outrage of the day. Just a reminder: Read Benedict’s speech. It’s challenging reading, and you’ll have to return to it a time or two or three – but note that Islam is…

Nice video of a boys’ choir  – Tölzer Knabenchor  – performing for the Pope at the Munich airport. The choir is wonderful, of course, but the funny part comes as the director rather desperately searches his jacket for the CD to give to the Pope.. This is really the first clip of that choir –…

Joseph got a toy that, among other delights, can have its parts re-arranged so it’s a minotaur. I have explained to him several times what a minotaur is, and he likes his toy. Except he can’t remember the name. He keeps calling it a "buckeye." I have no idea why. Ohio State fans – take…

…the Vietnamese angle: A drive through eastern New Orleans can be thoroughly depressing. Abandoned businesses with shattered signs and homes with punched-out windows line silent streets. It can be difficult for outsiders to get their bearings in this part of the city because there has been no concerted effort to replace many of the street…

Of course, although it was a quotation and not His Holiness’s own words, it’s worth pointing out that he obviously did choose an unusually vivid and obscure quotation. Had any of us heard of this emperor before, besides Matthew? In thinking about this, I think we see again that now, 1 1/2 years after his…
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