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One of them anyway: And the other, who was to graduate the next day (but didn’t go through the ceremony) and his grandfather and step-grandmother: More here!

The Roamin’ Roman only has a few weeks more left before she returns to the US, and she’s busy with finals, but she’s posted a few great photos – including some of Pentecost Mass at the Pantheon – at the end of  which rose petals shower down through the oculus!!!! Fr. Z has photos as…

Kathy Shaidle, of Relapsed Catholic, and who lives in Toronto, is providing links and commentary.

Rich Leonardi has the goods on a disgusting move by some Catholic school parents in Cincy When classes began Thursday morning, June 1, at the Catholic elementary school of St. Mary, a parish in the affluent Hyde Park neighborhood on Cincinnati’s East Side, nine students were curiously absent. That is because their parents, including one…

According to an article posted in the Papa Ratzinger Forum (scroll down)…yes! Possibly for 2007: He will be in Brazil 2-3 days, after which he will head north to Caracas. Why Venezuela? Because, beyond its geopolitical importance, it is the nation that is carrying out political leadership activity aimed at all of Latin America; because…

Even with the watermarks, I love this photo: Wonderful. More from Catholic Press Photo Agency here. And from today’s Mass: The text of his homily is here: But how to enter into the mystery of the Holy Spirit, how to understand the secret of Love? The pages of today’s Gospel take us today to the…

The Philadelphia Inquirer is running a big package this week on Catholicism. (The link is to the front page. There’s a special box with the stories) Here’s a page with multimedia links, including profiles of several Philadelphia-area Catholics. Via Rocco

A lovely new website: We invite you to learn more about  Carmelite Spirituality through listening to short meditations we have put together for you to listen to via our PODCAST.   The Carmelite Community at the Carmel of St. Joseph in St. Louis have produced these meditations which come directly from the treasury of writings of  the…

Today was the massive gathering of representatives of the "new movements," for a Vigil of Pentecost at St. Peter’s with the Pope. There were an estimated 350,000 gathered (35-45,000 has been the normal number for the Wednesday audeinces for Benedict, just by way of comparison), and the crowd stretched all the way down to the…

Hah. You know that you can find photos from every Papal event on the Vatican website, and Michael finally went and looked for photos from the General Audience which we attended. And sure enough, there he is "with" the Pope! (No, we’re not in it – we were actually, originally about 5 rows back, but…

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