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This, from a source. A letter to Bishop Skylstad, president of the USCCB, on how some US dioceses might have been misusing canon law. Or mistakenly interpreting it, shall we say: Congregation for the Clergy Prot. N. 20060481 The Most Rev. William Skylstad President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops 3211 Fourth Street…

…is your posting screen really weird? One time it’s something, the next time you post or refresh, it’s something else? The editing tabs go missing?

Really interesting story from Alabama about a female Presbyterian pastor converting to Catholicism and now considering religious life with the Benedictines.

Miracle attributed to a Scottish venerable being investigated Margaret Sinclair, a committed trade unionist, joined the Poor Clares of St. Colette at the age of 23 and worked with the poor of Edinburgh until her death from tuberculosis two years later in 1925. The Catholic Church recognized Sister Sinclair’s heroic virtues, the first major step…

The only non-beach thing we did was a morning in St. Augustine – when you have a little boy addicted to "swording" you must take him to a fort, if one’s available. Castillo de San Marcos, of course, and a place that I’ve visited several times before, but not in a long time, so there…

A bit on our Florida stay: We rented a house on Anastasia Island, one that I found via (of course) the internet. Not through VRBO, but on a site run by a Realtor who owns ten properties to rent. As you may recall, we finally decided to do this fairly late in the game, and…

The English translation is finally online, at the Vatican website. It is the same translation as in the USCCB version. via Pontifications. Is your Catholic high school requiring students to own a copy of the Compendium? If I were teaching…I would!

Just a word on this blog, for any newcomers: For the first couple of years of this blog, it was an all-news all the time kind of place, but then that naturally got the best of me, although I still remain an inveterate news and information hound. But blogging so much (remember at the beginning…

Worldwide and in the Church…violence, winds of war, liturgical questions and arguments (now there’s something new for you), and much more…but I’m still not done with my thing that was due on Wednesday, and I’m laboring under the burdens of 1)lots of people in the house and 2)stress over David’s trip. I think the housing…

From the Vatican: Cardinal Secretary of State Angelo Sodano today made the following declaration on Vatican Radio:   "The news we are receiving from the Middle East is certainly worrying.   "The Holy Father Benedict XVI and all his collaborators are following with great attention the latest dramatic episodes, which risk degenerating into a conflict…
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