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And it’s an honest one for my many erudite readers. If one wanted to read a critical, objective examination of Islam’s origins and the origins of the Koran, where would one go? You know…the sort of thing that undergraduates encounter re/Christianity in Christian Origins 101, placing the people in context, tracing influences, teasing apart the…

There are many profoundly sad things in the world, so one hesitates to mention the minor ones. But then, if they do portend or point to something greater, perhaps we have an excuse. For me, one of the most disheartening things in life is to open a book, find it marked up and annotated by…

Jim Manney posts on the latest entry in the Loyola Classics series: Cosmas or the Love of God, the latest book in the Loyola Classics series, is a short, quiet novel, written by a French banker three decades ago, about a man with a failed monastic vocation. This doesn’t sound terribly exciting, but the book…

Some brief hits: The new Apocalypto trailer – gotta say, I’m intrigued… Marriage and the Law: A Statement of Principles via Rob Vischer at Mirror of Justice Also via MOJ, news of a Focolare event this weekend in Hungary: In 1956, Pius XII reacted with the Hungarian Uprising with a cry for "volunteers of God"…

…for blogger Patrick Coffin, whose daughter Naomi is to be born today by C-section, and whose health is quite precarious ..for Dom Bettinelli’s nephew, going in for cystic fibrosis tests today

Jen Ambrose sends along the message from Democrats for Life that Robert Casey Jr.’s speech today at CUA Law School will be webcast at the law school site – I can’t determine where. If you can figure it out, post it in the comments. It’s at 3pm.

Sandro Magister sums up the Pope’s visit to Bavaria, quoting from various homilies, and offering his own analysis. This might be a good piece to pass on to the stubborn Benedict-doubters in your life who are still insistent on viewing through the lens of caricacture: But it is the complete itinerary that reveals the vision…

More photos of today’s events. At Mass in the Cathedral in Freising, where he was ordained, he preached, abandoning his written text, saying something like, "Whoever wants to, can read it later.": Surrounded by his fellow Bavarians, including his brother and other priests from his ordination class, the Holy Father recalled the feelings he experienced…

The Ratzinger brothers at their parents’ and sister’s graves: Image source More at this thread

…in Philadelphia: Cardinal Justin Rigali is calling together hundreds of priests in the Philadelphia Archdiocese to hear from two people who were sexually abused by Roman Catholic clerics. The priests will meet at a seminary, where they’ll be addressed by two adults – one man, one woman – who were abused by priests as children,…
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