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You all know Sandra Miesel, medievalist extraordinaire who co-authored the Ignatius Press DVC book with Carl Olsen, The Da Vinci Hoax, and is regular and learned commentor on many blogs. Sandra let us a know a couple of months ago about her husband’s illness, and now writes, asking for our prayers: Sandra Miesel’s husband John…

The Sun-Times reports: Cardinal Francis George was in intensive care this morning after returning to the operating room late Thursday night for additional surgery after experiencing unstable blood pressure and a drop in his blood count despite having received blood transfusions. The cardinal went in to surgery just before midnight and underwent a two-hour procedure…

In case you’re not keeping up (gee….), that’s the new name of John Allen’s weekly web column – since he’s not going to be full-time in Rome anymore – this week’s column focuses, of course, primarily on the Middle East. The White House believes that simply freezing things in place now would allow Hezbollah time…

Funny that the week I started doing some work on this project for the Archdiocese of Military Services….OSV runs an article on it. It’s not online yet, but an abridged version is available at Catholic Online: Catholic men and women comprise 27 percent of the U.S. military, according to Archbishop Edwin O’Brien, yet only 7…

In this past week’s summit: The 15-nation conference held in Rome on Wednesday failed to produce an immediate cease-fire, but there were significant results, says the Vatican secretary for relations with states. Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo participated as an observer in the international conference, and in this interview aired today on Vatican Radio, he offers his…

Well, my son is in London, after a day-long delay (his connecting flight out of VA to Atlanta was way late, and he would have missed the Atlanta – London flight as a result, so he ended up flying out the next day, via Cincinatti this time). Getting settled in his lodgings, wandering about, looking…

A Vatican Information Services recap of Papal activity during the first six months of the year. Related: Edward Pentin at the NCR(egister) profiles new Vatican spokesman Fr. Lombardi, SJ, with whom he worked at Vatican Radio: In the 15 years he was program director, Father Lombardi was keen that the radio broadcast (known as the…

Today, Magister reports on an intriguing document from the Spanish bishops. The document is in the form of a “pastoral instruction,” and is entitled “Theology and secularization in Spain, forty years after the end of Vatican Council II.” It is the outcome of three years of work, and was prepared by the commission for the…

Boston archdiocesan employee was ordained in one of those womanpriest ceremonies last year… A department head at the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston has resigned her post after revealing that she had secretly participated in a ceremony last year in which she says she was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest. Jean Marie Marchant, who for…

Good CNS article on the present state of Catholic radio. It will be interesting to see what this Sirius channel ends up looking like. (Er..sounding like). A Corpus Christi note: KLUX-FM in Corpus Christi, Texas, doesn’t sell ads, but it subscribes to a ratings service. And the ratings say KLUX is second in the Corpus…
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