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I’d say…yes! For the rest of today, the Pope will first meet with a group of academics at the University of Regensburg  –  in 1969, he held the Chair of dogmatics and history of dogma at the University of Regensburg, and was also Vice-President of the University. This evening, he will participate in an ecumenical…

For those of you trying to keep up, remember that all of the texts for the pope’s homilies on his visit are available at the Vatican Radio site. Today’s homily began with an expression of gratitude – for all of those who prepared the Mass, as well as for other parts of the visit: I…

Here’s a pdf of the program for today’s Mass. Via Gerald Photos…click for captions and full credit: More.

Here’s the text of the Pope’s homily. Gerald says that this text is different than the spoken version which was reprinted in German on Kath Net. He’s translated. I’ve not compared and seen the differences yet.

A USCCB publication featuring the stories of several priests who ministered in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. (pdf file)

TIME’s photo essay on preachers of the prosperity gospel, then and now. Well, not just the "gospel," for Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh is mentioned – although I will say that my impression of Rajneesh was never that he taught that his followers would be rich..he was. But I could be wrong. The photoessay is nothing great…

…in the flesh (Time changes some things – but not Fr. Georg’s forelock!) And in the Spirit. Benedict and his brother, Fr. Georg Ratzinger, praying at the baptismal font in which they were both baptized, in the Church of St. Oswald in Marktl am Inn.

EVERY time I post one of these "sources say" from the European press, I get burned. But oh, let’s have a go: THE Pope has sounded out Hans Tietmeyer, the former head of the Bundesbank, to become head of the Vatican Bank, sources say. Herr Tietmeyer, who headed the Bundesbank from 1993 to 1999, studied…

Bill Howard, editor of the diocesan paper for Colorado Springs, is in Germany, covering the visit.

Congratulations to blogger/writer Danielle Bean on the birth of her eighth child!
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