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And use your time well… from today’s Angelus, translation courtesy of Teresa Benedetta: Dear brothers and sisters, In this summer season, many have left the cities and are in tourist destinations or in their hometowns for their annual vacation. To them I wish that this awaited period of rest may serve to refresh the mind…

But what else is it? Charles Colson the latest: In the absence of such a test for autism, researchers at University College Hospital London are settling for what they call a “close enough” solution. They have applied for permission to use pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, or PGD, to screen out male embryos in families with a…

Cobbler. For a change from strudel, yes? (Source, of course – scroll down for the answer to…why are there baskets of peaches on the floor of Castel Gandolfo?)

A CNS story about a school for AIDS orphans in Kenya: In 2002, Oganda and his friends formed their own nongovernmental organization, Hands of Love Society, and began paying school fees for orphans. However, schools increased fees as soon as they discovered an organization was paying for the student. Staff also subtly discriminated against the…

Today is the feast of St. Clare. Get started here. The old Catholic Encyclopedia article The turning point in her life, from Christus Rex: The Porziuncola was again a venue for an important landmark in the early Franciscan history in 1211. During the night of 18-19 March Clare escaped from her family’s house in Assisi…

Just a reminder…posters who post totally anonymously have absolutely no rights, okay? That means if you post under a fake name with a fake email (the first is hard to detect, unless it’s like "Anonymous" or George Washington" – although I suppose there are plenty of the latter actually running around – but the latter…

Both Dave Pulliam and Terry Mattingly have things to say about Jon Meacham’s cover story on Billy Graham in his twilight years: Surely Meacham knows that Graham has been giving these very same answers to basic questions for decades, at the very least since the hard lessons of the Watergate era. There is a reason…

Gerald of Closed Cafeteria notes an article on one of the Pittsburgh 12 making her mark in his neck of the woods. In 2005, after her son graduated (both her sons are in college now), she began to tell more people and share a desire to start a parish “for all the Catholics who have…

First-time parenting is a bear. No one I know would ever like to repeat the experience, especially of a baby. What to do? What’s wrong with him? Will she break? Will I warp him for life? And when will he stop crying at night? Well, new parents, take heart. There will come a day when…

Magister on Benedict’s seminar session – his annual reunion with some of his former students, centered on a specific topic. Last year was Islam, this year is Creation and evolution: All those who are expected to attend Benedict XVI’s private seminar with his former theology students at Castel Gandolfo in early September will come with…
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