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Rocco reports that Bishop Carlson is ready to rumble. In love and charity!

Dave Hartline of the Catholic Report has a fascinating last report from the Episcopal General Convention. He intererviews Susan Russell of Integrity, the Episcopalian equivalent of Dignity, Bishop Gene Robinson and then some "reasserters" including Kendall Harmon. There’s some really interesting stuff there. And…if anyone would like to summarize the end result of this convention…please…

No, Condi’s not going anywhere…Sodano out, Bertone in: Pope Benedict XVI (bio – news) has named Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone of Florence (to correct CWN – NO! He’s Archbishop of Genoa!) to become the Vatican Secretary of State, replacing Cardinal Angelo Sodano (bio – news). (Change will happen in September) The Holy Father has also promoted…

My scheduled flight home was late enough – to come in at 11, which would have been fine. But "weather" in Chicago (you notice how we don’t call it "bad" weather any more – it’s just ‘weather") messed everyone up, and so I rolled back in at 1:34. This will be a challenging morning, what…

A lovely piece from Rochester about an elderly priest, the Masses he offers, and the community that comes to pray with him.

It carries pilgrims between Krakow and Wadowice – more photos at this link. Joan Lews of EWTN has more here. Thanks to reader Matthew!

In today’s Angleus, Benedict continued his catechesis on the apostles, moving on to James: “So we can learn many things from St James: readiness to welcome the call of the Lord even when he asks us to leave the ‘boat’ of our human securities, enthusiasm to follow him along the paths He indicates beyond our…

A week or so ago, I blogged on an Italian television show about a priest-detecitve, a show that’s quite popular. A reader writes: We watch Italian Don Matteo in RAI International.  Unquestionably the producer & director are people of real faith.  We have never seen a program that so deeply expressed the spirituality of a…

Putting the shopping cart back in the cart corrall in a store parking lot. Take the baby out of the stroller, start walking back to the car. Baby starts saying, "Uh-oh! Uh-oh!" I murmur absently, "I know, cart’s gone. Uh-oh!" Or some such. Baby keeps on. "Uh-oh!" Finally, I turn and see a woman walking…

A website some of you might want to check out – some Protestants thinking through worship issues in the context of tradition : I wonder if the more recent emphasis on self in worship is one more way of expressing our autonomy and self-importance. It runs like this: "God, I am going to worship you.…
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