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…in Paraguay at least: A book by Spanish exorcist Father Jose Antonio Fortea and published by the Thomas More Institute of the Catholic University of Asuncion has outsold The Da Vinci Code in Paraguay, with the first edition selling out in just three days. The book, entitled “Summa Daemonniaca”, answers questions about Satan and was…

Rich Leonardi has a series of posts following up on the scamming-the-system voucher story from that area, which implicated well-off parents in a well-off Catholic school getting next year’s tuition taken care of by enrolling their kids for one day in an at-risk school. What’s positive is that the Cincy Archdiocesan paper ran a good…

Reader Andrea sends this. I’m just going to quote her letter because she puts it perfectly: Let me see if I have this straight. First we promote "choice" and the number of babies being born drops. Now the European population is aging — no babies has a way of doing that — and someone figures…

Matthew of the Holy Whapping has moved to the Big Apple and immediately…found a cause! The historic New York parish of St. Vincent de Paul down in Chelsea (116 West 24th Street) is facing closure. A recent article in The New York Times focused on the parish’s small but vibrant Francophone congregants, but there’s a…

Here’s my last comment on the Catholic pols/abortion rights/Communion business – at least until this fall, I imagine. As I said before, I was not convinced that some sort of "policy" was in order because I’m not for the USCCB setting "policy" for every bishop on matters like this. It doesn’t fit into any historical…

But I have to pull these two conjoined comments from the Corpus Christi thread, for your attention and discussion: It was the monthly celebration of the Feast of Our Lady of Great Chaos, or the bilingual Mass. I’m sorry but I really was disengaged there. Can’t recall much about the homily. Wife was not feeling…

and interview a Catholic priest! (Fr. Richard John Neuhuas…and for more Neuhaus, here’s his entry at the FT blog on the election of the new Presiding Bishop.)

From Assumption Grotto in Detroit From the Diocese of Kansas City, Bishop Finn leading. Oh, but we have to cross the sea for just a minute to post the annual baby-jumping Corpus Christi photo from Spain: Caption, credit and explanation here.

From a CNS story: On polarization within the church he said: "We are called to teach the truth, to correct errors and to call one another to greater faithfulness. However, there should be no place in the body of Christ for the brutality of partisan politics, the impugning of motives, or turning differences in pastoral…

Pulled from the comments: We would appreciate prayers for all who are trying to keep the Classical Anglican blogs running. A few other sites where you might be able to get news should the CaNN server situation not improve right away: Anglican Mainstream in Englandhttp://www.anglican-mainstream.net/ Stand Firmhttp://www.standfirminfaith.com American Anglican Councilhttp://www.americananglican.org/gc06/http://aacblog.classicalanglican.net/ And MUCH MUCH more important…
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