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I’ve been searching and waiting all week for a full text of Archbishop Amato’s remarks at last week’s conference on the Church and Media at Rome’s Opus Dei University of the Holy Cross. "Strategic Management of Church Communications: New Challenges; New Directions" was the conference name, and the program is here. If you read the…

The Superior General of the Society of Jesus apparently has critical things to say: The about-to-retire Superior General of the Jesuits, Peter Hans Kolvenbach, has expressed critical questions about the Pope’s encyclical Deus caritas est. In an interview with the Flemish (Belgian) weekly Tertio, Kolvenbach said that one gets the impression from the encyclical that…

Via Ross at American Scene, I discover that a film based on the prescient and knowing P.D. James novel Children of Men (envisioning a world dealing with a global infertility plague) …exists and will be released this year! (Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, Michael Caine starring.) Huh. News to me. Good news!

That’s one of the big DVC questions right now. Is it because there’s a twist they want to conceal? Is it just because they want the mystery and excitement to build? Or is it because it’s no so great? Hmmmm. (For those who care, worldwide premiere is 5/17 at Cannes) And this blogger lays out…

Excommunication: The Vatican on Thursday excommunicated two bishops ordained by China’s state-controlled church without the pope’s consent, escalating tensions as the two sides explored preliminary moves toward improving ties. The Vatican also excommunicated the two bishops who ordained them, citing church law. Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls cited Article 1382 of the Roman Catholic Church’s canon…

Gashwin Gomes takes a look at an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education examining new views of gnosticism; namely the conviction among some that "gnosticism" as a category should be abandoned. (I assume these scholarly advocates are only speaking about the Christian versions of gnosticism. But of course.) In an interview, Ms. King expands…

Here’s the English: According to the information received, bishops and priests have been subjected to – on the part of external entities to the Church – strong pressures and to threats, so that they would take part in the episcopal ordinations which, being without pontifical mandate, are illegitimate and, besides, contrary to their conscience. Various…

At The Corner, KLo cites a WSJ article on a recent Harris Poll on abortion. Here’s the link (the WSJ is free to non-subscribers for the next few days) – get a load of the questions. What a textbook example of rotten polling on abortion. In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that states laws…

…at Condoleeza Rice being chosen as Commencement speaker..Dom has links and discussion. American Papist has full texts of various letters of protest that have been written.

From Magister today, an article by an Egyptian Jesuit: Benedict XVI admires in Islam the certainty based on faith, which contrasts with the West where everything is relativized; and he admires in Islam the sense of the sacred, which instead seems to have disappeared in the West. He has understood that a Muslim is not…
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