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A cemetery for aborted babies in Vietnam: The cemetery was born from the initiative of a group of volunteers who wanted to celebrate the “sacredness of life” by giving the little fetuses a burial at least. Every day, volunteers go to collect victims from hospitals, clinics and even from garbage dumps, and then they bury…

More photos here President Gloria Arroyo of the Philippines meets with Pope Benedict In her departure statement, Mrs. Arroyo said her decision to sign the bill abolishing the death penalty was “the best pasalubong [gift]” she could offer to the Pope. “For the first time, I am going to have an audience with Pope Benedict…

A bit of a controversy in Alberta over gambling and Catholic school funding: Calgary bishop Fred Henry has threatened to blacklist Catholic schools that continue to depend on gambling as a source of "immoral" fundraising for cash-strapped schools. The Globe and Mail reports that Calgary’s influential bishop has issued a damning indictment of a local…

Almost as witty as the Algonquin…

Fr. Jim at Dappled Things has some good, basic advice!

Clayton Emmer has an excerpt from last Sunday’s Fr. Groeschel show on EWTN, on which Dr. Peter Kreeft spoke about Catholic higher education.

Benedict, Catechist: But first, taking his cue from the liturgical calendar, Benedict XVI, catechist and theologian pope, used the time of reflection before the Angelus to explain the feasts of the Sacred Heart, John the Baptist, Mary’s Immaculate Heart, and Saints Peter and Paul. In doing so, he wrested them away from sentimentalism and revealed…

You could cross-stitch the Sistine Chapel ceiling! (Of course, it might take longer than the summer – say 10 years, for the woman who stitched it and created the pattern.) From the reader/blogger who sent it in: Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Ceiling in Cross-stitch , a new self-published book by Joanna Lopianowski-Roberts, shows the fruit of…

Via Papa Ratzinger Forum, a link to an "official song" for the Pope’s apostolic visit to Regensburg in September Here’s the link – scroll down to "Live-Mitschnitt" to hear the song. Also over at the Forum, hop between various forum categories for articles about the Bertone appointment – I don’t have time to really clip…

Catholic demographics in the US, present and future: Catholic Latinos will likely increase to 40 million in 2025, more than triple the 13 million in 1990. Total growth in the U.S. Catholic population will amount to 29 million by 2025. Virtually all of the growth (26 million) will be due to the Hispanic population. Proportionally,…
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