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Did anyone else watch it on PBS this evening…harkening back to the days when PBS actually did something valuable via Live from Lincoln Center…where many of us got our most sustained initial exposure to opera? My father had seen it in New York a month ago (along with Awake and Sing! which features Six Feet…

Mass translation approved. Roman Catholic bishops in the United States voted yesterday to change the wording of many of the prayers and blessings that Catholics have recited at daily Mass for more than 35 years, yielding to Vatican pressure for an English translation that is closer to the original Latin. The bishops, meeting in Los…

No text of the remarks of the Apostolic Nuncio yet, but here’s the text of the address from the Bishop of Leeds, Arthur Roche, chariman of ICEL, to the USCCB: The version of Mass that we currently use is clearly far from perfect. Those of you who celebrate Mass in both Spanish and English will…

Well, that’s what one of the captions to one of the photos of Corpus Christi in Brazil – although the "rugs" also include coffee, sawdust and other materials.  More photos of other "rugs" in other parts of Brazil, as well as Haiti, here. In Germany: Another part of Germany: (Click on all the photos for…

In NRO: During the entire nine hours of the conference, none of the speakers I heard discussed how to live chastely while experiencing same-sex attractions. The focus was entirely on the goal of switching sexual orientations. Mike Haley, the director of gender issues for Focus on the Family and probably the speaker at the conference…

In which I attempt to liveblog Benedict’s homily at the Corpus Christi Mass now being offered outside St. John Lateran in Rome (via the translator) on EWTN, who seems to be paraphrasing. I say this because the Pope goes on for sentences and sentences, and then the translator pops out one line. But here goes:…

In Michigan, the Christian Reformed Church is talking about Catholics: GRAND RAPIDS — More than 400 years after the Protestant Reformation, the Christian Reformed Church is trying to take back a historic slap against the Catholic Church. It’s not easy. Delegates to the CRC Synod spent about three hours Wednesday attempting to tone down a…

By the way, I noticed a couple of things at the Vatican website: There’s a special webpage up with links about the July meeting on families in Valencia, Spain. On the Catechism page, there are links to the Catechism text (as you probably know) in several languages, including English. There are also links to the…

Episcopalians, Southern Baptists…what about those bishops out in LA? Well, the preliminary meetings were held over the past two days and Rocco reports they were, er…tense. We had one phone message from an attendee, but it wasn’t about anything going on there, and I don’t know if Michael ever called him back. So I have…

The Southern Baptists have been meeting this week, and elected a new president – the bloggers’ candidate, according to this TIME article: Pounding this and other issues home was a new power bloc in the Convention: bloggers. Southern Baptist-focused blogs began popping up about a year ago, when a group of younger (under 40) Baptists…
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