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Some of you watched HBO’s Rome miniseries. Season 2 is in production over in, well…Rome, and one of the interesting features of the material on the series on the HBO website are intermittently-updated blogs by folks associated with the series, including historians. Here’s a blog post, for example, on the practice of sublatus – in…

South African bishops to their priests: Southern African bishops have told priests they can no longer act as traditional African healers. Priests must "desist from ‘ubuNgoma’ (traditional healing) practices involving spirits and channel their ministries of healing through the sacraments and sacramentals of the church," said the bishops of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference,…

Many congratulations, good wishes and prayers to blogger Rich Leonardi and family, who welcomed their newest child (#5) this afternoon: Peter Albert.

Gunter Grass, that is – POW’s together: Till now, it had only been known that the writer had been conscripted into Germany’s air defense corps during the war. But in the forthcoming autobiography, Grass recalls that at age 15, he tried to enlist in the Navy of the Third Reich because he wanted to be…

A couple of days ago USAToday ran a piece on God’s stance on abortion. Yah. It was written by Tom Ehrich, an Episcopal priest from North Carolina and columnist for Religion News Service. The column itself is less on what "God" thinks about abortion than what modern churches think about it. Which is, of course,…

Cardinal George is released from hospital. With the help of crutches, Cardinal Francis George walked out of the hospital in good spirits today after a 19-day stay for cancer surgery. "I feel very good; it’s nice to be out," he said. "I’m very grateful to God and especially to all those people who pray for…

Seminarian blogger Dennis from Memphis blogs on a confluence of events: So today, I will be going to mass for the Feast of the Assumption of Mary at St. Paul Catholic Church, which is the Catholic church nearest to Graceland, so it would have been Elvis’ parish had he been Catholic. Every year, at 3…

Dr, Charles Rice fired (strictly speaking – not re-appointed as Visiting Prof) from Ave Maria School of Law. The Fumare blog has news, links and many, many comments..

Mike Aquilina points us to a helpful essay by David Scott on the Assumption, specifically how a re-engagement with early Christian history puts more recent anti-Assumption polemics in persepective. On November 1, 1950, Pope Pius XII declared a new dogma of the Catholic Church—a truth revealed by God to be believed by the faithful: that…

Carey, Ohio – not to far from here – is the site of Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation and a large celebration of the Feast of the Assumption. Last year, the procession for the feast was anything but peaceful, as extreme fundamentalist Christians came to mix it up with the Catholics. Intrepid reporter and…
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