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Government changed its mind: In a stunning about-face that is sure to send shock waves through Hollywood, the government of China has decided to yank the controversial thriller "The Da Vinci Code" from the country’s theaters starting today, Sony Pictures confirmed Wednesday. The decision, made in the wake of protests from Catholic groups, comes three…

Well, one new bishop, one bishop moved: In Italian, here: Bishop Gossman of Raleigh has resigned (he turned 76 in April), resignation accepted, his replacement will be Bishop Michael Francis Burbidge, auxiliary from Philadelphia and former rector of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary. Monsignor Daniel Thomas nominated as auxiliary bishop in Philadelphia.

Great post from Mike Aquilina at "The Way of the Fathers" Yet the Fathers had enormous success in youth and young-adult ministry. Many of the early martyrs were teens, as were many of the Christians who took to the desert for the solitary life. There’s ample evidence that a disproportionate number of conversions, too, came…

One of the more intriguing film projects on the way is The Nativity Story – which is exactly what the title indicates – a film about the birth of Jesus. It’s a big-budget, regular old Hollywood (if such a place exists anymore) film directed by Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen), starring 16-year old Keisha Castle Hughes (the…

I heard about one, then did a news search, and found another, then another. Amid the joking and the wise words about how this whole 6-6-06 was a massive misinterpretation of Scripture anyway, it seems as if some were inspired – we had, it appears, a few incidences of Satanic-themed vandalism on Christian churches over…

Every so often, I post short reviews of children’s books – not so much the classics and tried-and-true, but new titles, because I’m all about the new. (Tonight Joseph announced that he would not be eating any of the pork tenderloin we had for dinner because he no longer liked it. Just like last week…

Terry Mattingly’s latest column: The Christian moviemakers behind a low-budget film called "Facing the Giants" were stunned when the MPAA pinned a PG rating on their gentle movie about a burned-out, depressed football coach whose life _ on and off the field _ takes a miraculous turn for the better. "What the MPAA said is…

Everyone’s emailing me about the Left Behind video game and a recent LATimes story about same. Carl Olson has a good, thorough post on the matter: It is tragic and scandalous, even if commonplace, when Christians succumb to the leading sins of a particular age. But it is equally disturbing when Christians attempt to change…

Marvelous photo essay on Vatican City at Slate today. Although I confess, I can’t see either of the figures in the first photo as John XXIII, myself….too lithe.

A quite interesting analysis from Magister. Go read the whole thing. I’ll pull quotes later, probably. Gotta do some other stuff right now. Benedict XVI’s new curia isn’t just a matter of promotions and dismissals. It is also determined by the archbishops and cardinals who have deliberately assimilated, in their areas of competency, the new…
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