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Dimitri Cavalli has an op-ed in the Jerusalem Post – "Was Pius XII really Hitler’s Pope?" Pope Benedict’s recent visit to Auschwitz helped rekindle the controversy over the actions of Pope Pius XII during the Holocaust. Although some Jewish leaders and Catholic writers often condemn Pius XII today, the wartime Jewish press had a favorable…

Paragraph Farmer Patrick O’Hannigan examines blogger Eric Muller’s "analysis" of the Pope at Auschwitz Muller, however, sees insult where none was intended, lamenting the alleged “degradation” of identifying Judaism as the taproot of Christianity, as though the effort to eliminate Judaism from the world were not “a complete crime in itself.” That the pope also…

In Georgia, a Catholic OB-GYN coordinates an effort to collect umbilical-cord blood: For the past five years Dr. Gerry Sotomayor of BFL has collected umbilical cord blood from newborns, sending it to cord blood public registries to help patients worldwide with the 65 diseases now successfully treated with umbilical cord adult stem cells—not to mention…

The Pontifical Institute for the Family issued a document today: The Pontifical Council for the Family, founded 25 years ago by John Paul II with the Motu Proprio "Familia a Deo Instituta," and presided by Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, today published a document entitled: "Family and Human Procreation." The text, according to an explanatory note…

Fr. Z finds a theme: A common element in Rome’s conflict with the PCA and the SSPX are their illicitly consecrated, excommunicated bishops.  More importanly, however, they are also deeply mired in the matter of religious liberty in one way or another.  Simply put, in China the Party doesn’t want people to have religious liberty…

No auxiliaries for St. Paul-Minn, but 3 for Brooklyn. English news wire isn’t out yet, but here it is in Italian: Il Rev.do Mons. Octavio Cisneros, del clero della medesima diocesi, Rettore della "Cathedral Seminary Residence of the Immaculate Conception" a Douglaston e Segretario per la Formazione Sacerdotale, assegnandogli la sede titolare vescovile di Eanach…

Whose silence? Now, though, Benedict has actually said something. He said more or less what I did after visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau — and before that, Treblinka, and afterward, Buchenwald and Terezin. He said what I said after reading a shelf of books on the Holocaust and listening to the stories of survivors: "Why, Lord, did you…

The forthrightness of this piece from a Ugandan website intrigued me: get busy, people, and make it easier for the pilgrims! By declaring them martyrs and declaring June 3 a public holiday in their honour, government and church, respectively, have at least taken a step in the right direction. Every Ugandan, even a non-believer, now…

More here. Michael’s also put up photos from his Book Expo America trip – here. Really nice photo of Tracey Ullman (who has a knitting book coming out, apparently) and one of Harvey Pekar, whose autograph Michael got on a sampler of a Best of America comics/graphic novels thing that’s forthcoming.

So for today – the rumor that a co-adjutor for St. Paul-Minneapolis is on the way. Tomorrow, even.
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