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More on Friday’s Stations at the Colisseum: This year, the Vatican decided to take special care to help others watching on television follow the event prayerfully. While tens of thousands of copies of the meditations and prayers are given to pilgrims and tourists at the Colosseum, in the past the millions of people watching on…

…puts an obstacle in the way of the General Audience. From earlier today: Despite all the darkness in the world, evil does not have the last word,” said Benedict XVI, frequently changing his prepared text off the cuff. “For our part, let’s commit ourselves to create a more just world with more courage.” The pope…

Pope pen found.

Zenit has postsed the text of Benedict’s homily given during his pastoral visit to a Roman parish on March 26 How should we respond to this radical love of the Lord? The Gospel presents to us a person by the name of Nicodemus, a member of the Sanhedrin of Jerusalem who sought out Jesus by…

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As my Toledo-area contact said, "This will fit in well with Da Vinci mania" Trial of priest accused of satanic-tinged murder of nun begins next week. Will be broadcast on CourtTV One of the biggest criminal cases in Toledo history had been scheduled to be shoehorned into one of the smallest courtrooms in the city…

Begin on Easter Sunday, in the company of this group blog Launch date:  Easter Sunday 2006 Our Purpose as stated in the sidebar Overview: A group blog for devotional and practical dialogue with sacred Scripture and sacred Tradition via the Catechism of the Catholic Church to the glory of God, for unity with the mystical…

The text of Way of the Cross, led by Pope Benedict this Friday at the Colosseum, written by Archbishop Angelo Comastri.

Because perhaps all of these rumors are for naught. Or it just won’t be a big deal. But if something is up with the Tridentine liturgy (Pian rite? 1962 Missal? What am I supposed to call this? I never know. Someone always corrects you no matter what you say), I’m going to be full of…

The USCCB response to DVC is shaping up nicely, with new articles added regularly: Here’s one by Peter Feuerherd on the appeal of secret societies From my little cottage industry: De-Coding Da Vinci has been translated into 2 more languages. I don’t know which. Don’t ask. De-Coding Mary Magdalene has been translated into 4. OSV…

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