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Democratic candidate for Senator from PA, Robert Casey, Jr, is speaking at Catholic University in DC tomorrow, and some are not happy: "The university is clearly taking sides and has no business doing this in one of the most important elections in the country," said Bob Destro, a professor and former acting dean at the…

Late last week, the news came down that the Vatican had approved a new French group, at this point composed of priests who had left the SSPX, the main breakaway Traditionalist group (and they will argue to the death with you whether or not they should be described as "schismatic" – although most analyses I’ve…

Terry Mattingly on the building frenzy: The faithful have been sweating ever since Jim Dale, the voice behind the U.S. audio-book editions, claimed that the author had told him Harry would die. Then Rowling stunned British television viewers by revealing that she had tweaked the finale (the last word is "scar") so that "one character…

POPE ENJOYS PRIVATE TIME AFTER SLAMMING ISLAM All in a day’s work…of the press missing the point, that is.

A Guardian story that just might show us one more time, how little we know… You’ve got to read this (thanks to the proprietor of the PostWatch Blog, for sending it) The drug zolpidem – sold as Ambien in this country – seems to bring parts of the brains of people in Persistant Vegetative States…

Today is the feast of St. John Chrysostom. (For Roman Catholics. The Orthodox celebrate his feast on November 13) Mike Aquilina gets us started, and here is the article from the OrthodoxWIki site – a wikipedia site by and for the Eastern Orthodox. John Chrysostom, born in Antioch, gained a reputation as an excellent preacher…

Freed Monday in Iraq: Fr Saad Hanna Sirop, the Chaldean Catholic priest freed Monday evening after 27 days in captivity, “was threatened and tortured”, another Iraqi priest, a fellow student, told AsiaNews. “He is really tired and exhausted. He was threatened and tortured. He’ll be able to talk about his painful and fearful experiences later.”…

The pope’s address upon blessing the organ at the Alte Kapelle in Regensburg An important contribution to the renewal of sacred music in the nineteenth century was made by a canon of this collegiate church, Carl Joseph Proske. Gregorian chant and classic choral polyphony were integrated into the liturgy. The attention given to liturgical sacred…

I’m reading a book about the Papal States (gripping! page-turner! Um…actually…sort of.) and Pavia, a place I’d never heard of before, kept coming up last night. It was the center of Lombard rule, the Lombards being the people who put Rome and environs under constant threat in the 7th and 8th centuries (hence….Lombardy), and folks…

Beautiful: <i</i (source) Just a little scary: I’m not sure the baby wanted to see Benedict that badly… More Actually, here’s the baby from another angle – yeah, he looks like he just said, "I wanna see the Pope." Source
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