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Yup – it’s Mike Aquilina, who’s just started a blog that will focus on the early Church Fathers. Also check out Singing in the Reign, the blog of Michael Barber, a Biblical scholar and host of an EWTN radio show. His blog focuses on Scripture, but wanders afield as well.

Read Fr. Jim Martin’s book in the car on the way down (yes, we are in an undisclosed locations somewhere south of Cincinnati). It’s just what the title indicates – an account of the saints who have impacted Fr. Martin’s life, those he looks to for intercession, companionship and inspiration. He takes it somewhat chronologically,…

This article isn’t brand new, and it involves accusations made in lawsuits, but even what Kinkade, artistic cash cow of Christian bookstores and such,  admits, on one hand, and doesn’t deny, on the other, is fascinating. The lawsuits concern business dealings, but bring out various personal issues like heavy drinking, visits to strip clubs and…

A reader passes this on, from the Catholic Times (a Canadian diocesan paper? …the Canadian Catholic paper? I don’t know..), in regard to the letter sent to the Canadian bishops blogged here. Fr Luc Lantagne, SDB, superior of the Salesians of St. John Bosco in Canada, called the CRC to critique the document. He told…

Do go check out Michael Novak’s website for comments and reviews of his latest book, Washington’s God.

Vatican Radio has some interesting anniversary programming.

I am picking up hints, via comments here and elsewhere, that the transcript of Cardinal Mahony’s chat that has been posted is not, let us say, identifiable as the chat that occurred on Friday, at least in part. If anyone has more to say on that – anyone who was actually online to "listen" to…

More photos of the Masses – in Rome and in Poland – here. There are remembrances all over the blogosphere, of course, and you all have your favorites. Tomorrow, though, be sure to check the Roaming Roman’s site – she was at the Mass at St. Peter’s, and promises to blog on it. The AsiaNews…

Pete Vere strongly disagrees with Ed Peters in the Bishop Bruskewitz situation.

This article is a few weeks old, but it just showed up in our local paper today: A WSJ piece on Sony’s tactics for "avoiding" controversy with DVC (Whether or not they really want to avoid controversy is a question that is unasked and unanswered. Personally, I’m thinking…no.) The article misses something important. The reason…

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