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I’m speaking there on Monday. Open Book readers come say hey! I will have a few books to peddle – not many, but a few, just in case you’re looking for Easter/Confirmation, etc. gifts.

#1: 11pm at night – "My ear hurts…." Yeah. More on that later. Rest assured, we’re finally in Charleston, I’m getting ready to go talk, Michael’s going to take the boys to a ball game – Go see what they did yesterday during my talk in Columbia… Oh, and do check out the thread on…

Big old statue of JP2 in…India Hussaini said the statue’s dimensions make it “one of the largest statues dedicated to the Pontiff in the world.”  He explained that statue rests on “three great steps that represent the three phases of the life of the Pope: the first when he was Karol Wojtyla, the second when…

ND Prez Fr. Jenkins’ statement on the V – Monologues The Cardinal Newman Society responds

From a story on DVC paperback sales: Laurence J. Kirshbaum, the longtime head of the Time Warner Book Group and now a literary agent, said "Jaws" in the 1970s might have been the last paperback so in demand. "Unborn babies must be reading `Da Vinci,’" Kirshbaum said. "Who else on this planet is left?"

USA Today on a forthcoming TLC reality show – that doesn’t sound like it will be as good as the BBC original, but who knows… On normal mornings, the peals of the bell calling the monks to chapel for their 4 a.m. prayer simply float out into these remote desert hills to reverberate and die.…

Hey, I’m being interviewed on the Mary Magdalene book on the excellent Omaha Catholic radio station KVSS – Wednesday morning from 8:15-9:00 central. You can listen live at the link, and they will archive the interview at some point after it airs. Michael’s Power of the Cross Lenten mp3 devotions taped for KVSS can be…

Mollie at Get Religion takes a closer look. She also starts off a post on scientific explanations of miracles with a great joke.

A very interesting effort in Italy The “40 hours devotion for the Church in Need”, held in 11 cities and other places across Italy, is a “marathon of prayer and information”. Now in its third edition, the “40 hours devotion” aims to “call on the Lord to help and to support many of our brothers,…

Here’s the schedule. That evening, the Easter Triduum will begin at the Basilica of St. John Lateran at 5.30 p.m. with the Mass of Our Lord’s Last Supper, presided at by the Holy Father. During the liturgy, the Pope will wash the feet of 12 place recalling Jesus own action at the Last Supper. Those…

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