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We made it to, er..most of Mass late this morning at St. Peter in Chains Cathedral in Cincinnati. It was my first visit there – went to the mother St. Peter in Chains in Rome, after great effort (it was the only time in Rome we ever felt lost.), but the one time I tried…

After a two-week absence, I am back home in Indiana. It will take a bit to recover my bearings and figure out what this blog needs to be right now, so bear with me, if you like. Or if you don’t like, go somewhere else! Just a few notes from a rapid blog-survey: Barb Nicolosi…

Heartbreaking…author Regina Doman (of Angel in the Waters and other books)  – has tragic news to share: I have news so sad that it is breaking my heart. Yesterday, July 8, my four-year-old son Joshua Michael died in a car accident in our church parking lot. I love that boy so much. Please pray for…

Magister’s latest: But the anti-Christian act that provoked the greatest outrage was, on June 25, the aggression against four sisters of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, in a hospital of the Hindu temple town of Tirupati, in Andra Pradesh, a state in which there is no anti-conversion law in force. The four sisters of the Missionaries…

Pope planning document? According to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, “Pope Benedict is preparing a document on bioethics, biogenetics and in particular, on the protection of the embryo." The Pope wishes to prevent any manipulation of the human embryo on the ground that whatever is ‘technically possible’ in this area is ‘morally unacceptable.’ The Pope…

Lots of news on that front, of course. John Allen has background, in what used to be the "Word from Rome" but is now "All Things Catholic," reflecting the fact that Allen will no longer be full-time in Rome, but will be spending more of his time in New York. The Vatican page, barely updated…

Back in Knoxville for the night, before heading off early tomorrow morning for the Fort, which I have not seen in two weeks. Everyone else is asleep – I’m up waiting for Christopher, who is, on his part, returning from a wedding he attended up in Ohio (in a brief phone conversation he reported that…

The latest twist in the conversation, on the pop culture front.

Fr. Neuhaus has a post highlighting the group and articles from their recent proceedings.

Christopher Blosser has one of his monstrous, amazing round-ups of Pope news!
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