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You probably know about the Body Worlds exhibits – we have blogged on it before in various contexts, including The Anonymous Teacher Person’s questions about field trip to a similar exhibit in Atlanta last year (and do check out ATP – she’s not teaching in school at this point, but has a great post (among…

Someone has a jazzy looking new website. Go check it out.

To Fr. Martin Fox’s question about his uncritical use of "Catholic priest…" Q Dear Mr. Colimore: About your story on the woman, claiming to be a Catholic priest, having her first "Mass." I don’t want to beat you up; I assume you’re trying to be fair in this. But I’d ask you to appreciate that…

…will manage  the birthplace of Susan B. Anthony: The birthplace of suffragist organizer Susan B. Anthony was sold at auction today, August 5, 2006, after unsuccessful efforts to find a buyer for the historic home in Adams, Massachusetts. Carol Crossed, a member of the Board of Directors of Feminists for Life of New York, a…

The Atlanta paper takes note, thanks to an archaeological discovery. The Rev. Conrad Harkins is curious, too. For more than a decade, he has worked tirelessly to see that five Spanish missionaries killed by Indians on the Georgia coast in 1597 are recognized by the Roman Catholic Church as martyrs and, perhaps in time, as…

School is starting soon – not as soon as it is for some of you, I know. Most schools across Florida are in full swing already, as of today. (When I taught in Florida we started around the 15th. Which means you were back, of course, around the 8th. Which was pretty awful until…you hit…

"Female Catholic Priest has first Mass." Headline from the Philly paper. Er, no. Rocco advises the paper of the existence of the quotation mark

Cardinal George had complications over the weekend – and Cardinal Egan is due for knee-replacement surgery in September.

…to make sure your subconscious isn’t screaming through what you write, or that you just don’t say something amazingly stupid. Again, we disguise the source. But a reader sent this in from a bulletin, an announcement provided by that diocese’ Office of Vocations: His co-workers are well-trained and knowledgeable in their fields.  And they are…

Signs that we have a very long way to go…. I will disguise the facts of this post the best I can…someone associated with a Catholic high school in the United States wrote to say that he/she fought a battle with the rest of his/her department about summer reading for theology class students. The first…

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