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This note, from a reader, addresses an issue I’ve been grappling with for a while, but not blogged on because it’s so complicated, and I have nothing definitive to say, just questions. It’s not just Yahoo, of course. It’s Google, big time. My husband and I belong to a Yahoo Group with a Catholic base…

This next weekend’s schedule: Saturday evening 6:30-8:30 at St. Monica’s in Kalamazoo Sunday at 2, St. Thomas the Apostle in Ann Arbor drive fast…. Sunday at 5-6:15, St. Thomas Aquinas, East Lansing.

John Allen in the Wall Street Journal today The pope’s foremost concern is to defend the basic human rights of the estimated 13 million Catholics on the mainland. This isn’t a negligible issue. While antireligious persecution today is nowhere near as severe as in the heyday of the Cultural Revolution — when all religions were…

1) Is anyone else having a difficult time getting Catholic World News to load? Sometimes it’s okay, but 90% of the time…it’s not. 2) Follow this one closely: We have a small screened-in back porch. Last year, up until it got cold, I sat out there working on my laptop, accessing wireless. This year…I can’t.…

Scott Derrickson, the dirctor of The Exorcism of Emily Rose, will next tackle Paradise Lost

Last Friday, Bishop John D’Arcy spoke at an event sponsored by the St. Thomas More Society of the Notre Dame Law School: In his response to University President Father John Jenkins’ April 5 announcement that the "Monologues" would not be prohibited on campus, D’Arcy said he was "deeply saddened" by the decision. He told audience…

Mike Aquilina has created a blog to inform the world and engender discussion about his new book , The Grail Code.

Last week, Fr. John Wauck, an Opus Dei priest in Rome noticed an enormous ad for DVC on a scrim hanging over a church restoration site. Looks like something’s being done: "It advertises something that is against Christ and against the church," St. Pantaleo’s rector, the Rev. Adolfo Garcia Duran, told The Associated Press. The…

Prolife Blogs tells the story: A life or death struggle is taking place at St. Luke’s Hospital, where doctors are planning to remove a woman from life support. The patient is not brain dead, and according to her family, she wants to live. Andrea Clark has been at St. Luke’s since November.They may be small…

The excellent MercatorNet website has an interview with Ramesh Ponnuru about his latest book, The Party of Death. (Which I’ve just about finished reading and will review in the next day or so) MercatorNet: Why write this book now? Ponnuru: There hasn’t been a pro-life book for a general audience in more than 20 years.…

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