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For all of its faults…Wikipedia refuses to give in to PRC government: In Hong Kong for three days to speak at the Chinese Wikimania 2006 conference at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Wales said he had no intention of sacrificing the site’s independence or its culture of allowing users to add to and modify…

Benedict abolishes the Vatican Christmas Pops Concert: The annual charity concert, organised since its inception by the Prime Time Promotion events agency, will be transferred to Monaco beginning this year, the paper reported. Starting in 1993, Italian and international pop stars gathered annually in the Paul VI auditorium for the Yuletide bash. And every year…

The excellent Evangelical Catholicism blog has a couple of posts of note up now – one commenting on R.R. Reno’s post on theology graduate programs discussed here, and another on a Southern Baptist’s reaction to the Christian Century article on 6 recent converts to Catholicsm. It’s good, intelligent stuff. On the former, blog author Michael…

We have followed the story of St. John’s parish in Darien, CT for a while, now, haven’t we? The pastor, Fr. Michael Jude Fay was suspected by his associate pastor, Fr. Michael Madden, and the bookkeeper, Bethany D’Erario of financial shenanigans and other things. The initial scenario seems to be that Madden, frustrated with the…

All right now, time to share some book notes. I’m currently sort of obsessed with late medieval/renaissance Italy, trying to sort things out in my head. What it all comes down to for me – and has really ever since graduate school – is trying to understand how God works in, through and despite the…

Today, the pope met with parish priests from the diocese of Albano. An Italian newspaper snippet, translated at PRF: Answering a question by one of the priests, the Pope cited an initiative by the Bishop of Assisi to mark this jubilee year of St. Francis: "Mons. Sorrentino has declared it a year to devote to…

We talk about it all the time, and have no doubt it’s one of the most important tools for evangelization out there. Well, here’s a new one for you – Radio Notre Dame from Paris. I found it while searching out classical radio stations online (this link goes to a list of both US and…

A WaPo story: The number of "NFP-only" practices is unknown, but an Ohio-based Web site promoting them has a registry of nearly 500 doctors who have pledged to practice this way. Most are obstetrician-gynecologists and family practitioners. "We’re trying to get doctors to see that contraception is not good medical practice," said Steve Koob, who…

NY Archdiocese giving accused priests a choice: Cardinal Edward M. Egan, head of the New York Archdiocese, is trying something new. Since June, he has offered seven priests that the archdiocese believes have been credibly accused of sexually abusing children a choice. They can spend the rest of their lives in closely supervised housing, where,…

Reading Galley Slaves, and came across an entry from Victorino Matus wishing a happy birthday to one James Martin, S.J., "the oldest Jesuit in the world." Well, that’s a cruel jab, I thought, Fr. Jim Martin ain’t that old, surely.. Oh…it’s another Jesuit Fr. Martin, who really is the oldest Jesuit in the world –…
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