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Today, Camillian Fr. Antonio Didoné was a special guest at the General Audience. An article in AsiaNews tells us about his ministry of service, sacrifice and love, a ministry which has borne much fruit: In 1959, a year after his ordination, Antonio was invited to Taiwan to work in a small dispensary on the island…

A rather amusing YouTube clip from a few weeks ago in which the former president of Italy and his wife meet with the Pope and she, quite taken with Msgr. Ganswein, the Pope’s secretary, asks the Pope about him. (I would recommend letting it run once, and then play it again – the second time…

Apparently the ordination of three new auxiliary bishops for the Diocese of Brooklyn yesterday wasn’t important enough to make any of the NY papers. Ah well…here’s the page from the Brooklyn diocese anticipating the event, and here’s a link to the one news photo that I found. If anyone was in attendance …please post! Update:…

From an alt-paper in Seattle, advice for those who’d like to cripple the ministry of Focus on the Family. Few people know that Focus on the Family—the powerful evangelical Christian para-church based in Colorado Springs—will give you, absolutely free of charge, books, CDs, and DVDs. Usually people pay for these products, and the millions of…

I’ve opened comments on the post below in which today’s clerical sexual abuse/misconduct news is summarized. Something in the air…

They have two points to make, which they do, consistently and repeatedly: 1) You are inconsisten hypocrites, bleating words in worship and unfailingly failing to live them out. Yours is a Sunday-only kind of faith, window-dressing at best, and you are really no different than the rest of us. 2) Please. Keep your faith to…

Housing market cools…articles pop up about St. Joseph statues… But what’s different about this one is that….Realtors are providing and selling them: It’s often "an act of desperation," said Chris Bell, spokesman for the Cleveland Area Board of Realtors. "It seems agencies buy them when their listings aren’t moving as fast as expected." The local…

In his column, Sandro Magister summarizes statements and actions from the Vatican re/the Israel-Hezbollah conflict. Magister offers several different views of the situation from various experts, puts the Pope’s statements in context, and ends with an essay by Pietro de Marco – a professor at the University of Florence and at the Theological Faculty of…

An interesting apologetics tool – audio pamphlets on the Faith on CD, to be distributed free to parishioners and others.

A columnist at Tech Central Station takes on immigration arguments: Immigration hard-liners seem to be taking the position that, although Congress can make immigration laws more draconian, they cannot legitimately make them less draconian without somehow threatening the rule of law. They don’t seem to take this tack on other issues however. For example, I…
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