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I tried not to say it. I really did. Anyway, a bit on the Amarillo Eucharistic Congress. Unfortunately, I was in and out – working with two small airports is rather a pain, you know. To do one session on a Saturday morning required two days out of my life – to even just add…

Last year, first day of school (Pre-K at Most Precious Blood): This year (K at St. John the Baptist): I sure can. He was terrifically excited  – which was a relief since this is a new school. (This is our parish and our neighborhood Catholic school. They don’t have a pre-school, though, so last year…

Gashwin Gomes writes of the passing of the Abbot of the Trappist monastery of Our Lady of Mepkin near Moncks Corner, SC: An article from a SC paper: He was born Joseph Paul Kline III to Joseph P. Kline and Vanetta Hiltner Kline, in Philadelphia. He attended the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Elementary…

Jody Bottum at First Things comments on Georgetown U. rediscovering its Catholic identity: But now, at last, Georgetown has rediscovered its Catholicism, at least long enough for a Protestant employee of Campus Ministries to send a letter to six evangelical groups, kicking them off campus. The story made the Washington Post and the Washington Times…

Yesterday was the feast of St. Monica, and today is St. Augustine, of course. In these two, it seems, there is practically ever step of the Christian’s journey. Consider: there is parenting, with all of its pain and joy, the impassioned love of mother for child, the tension about what to do with that love,…

The legendary Latinist Fr. Reggie Foster was at Notre Dame this past week, and this blogger give an account More about Foster here and here’s a page that’s been compiled with archived recordings of his Vatican Radio program "The Latin Lover."

Jen Ambrose toys with some questions about Plan B. Good ones.

…but I got a kind of charming one: Bishop Yanta of Amarillo handing photographer duties for a shot of  Cardinal Martino and some other folks. And here, Cardinal Martino addresses a part of the gathering. He related the history of the Compendium of Social Teaching of the Catholic Church, saying that when he handed the…

.Rod Dreher on a new Pew Poll on religion and politics. Keeping the faith in North Vietnam On that non-destructive embryo research? Here (including comments) Here…hmmm… and here John Allen’s new column with much of interest including: The Feast of the Assumption was Aug. 15, and to mark the occasion thousands of pilgrims gathered at…

Via Michelle Malkin…a convert from Islam to Catholicism in Malaysia would like to be identified as such – but of course the Malaysian government thinks differently.

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