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This might be worth a look – Delia Gallagher hosts and reports in a 2-hour CNN special: Gallagher guides viewers through that life well-lived in the two-hour documentary, “CNN Presents: The Last Days of Pope John Paul II,” which will premiere Saturday, April 1, at 7 p.m. (ET) and replay at 10 p.m. that day…

Fr. Neuhaus responds, in general, to critics. He names a few – but not Damon Linker. I have little stake in the label “neoconservative,” or in “conservative,” for that matter, but I understand that you can’t have a vast conspiracy without labels. And I really do welcome criticism that raises interesting arguments. Those who have…

For Jeremy, the son of the webmaster of Traditional Catholic Reflections, Stephen Hand. Stephen has put up a special page with updates on his son’s condition here.

Italy give Abdul Rahman asylum Italy granted asylum Wednesday to an Afghan who faced the death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity, and Premier Silvio Berlusconi said the man was in the care of the Interior Ministry after arriving in Italy earlier in the day. Abdul Rahman "is already in Italy. I think he…

This is almost complicated: At Mirror of Justice, Rick Garnett addresses an America editorial that cites the Bishop of Portlande’s criticism of the Cardinal Newman Society Still, surely the "litmus test" items on which the Society is said to focus — some of them, anyway? — are relevant and important to the question of Catholic…

SF paper cleans clock of SF supervisors over their reaction to the evangelical youth rally (see below) THE IRONY was obviously lost on the clueless San Francisco supervisors when they passed a resolution warning that a Christian youth gathering could "negatively influence the politics of America’s most tolerant and progressive city." Spare us the doomsday…

At his Wednesday General Audience, Benedict continued his catechesis on the relationship of Christ to the Church Today, on a true day of spring, Benedict XVI spoke of the gift of communion to 40,000 faithful gathered for the general audience in St Peter’s Square. Communion is a gift from which the Church stems and which…

I do believe this is one of the more important Catholic-related stories brewing these days, and one that is not getting nearly enough attention. We heard about it first a few weeks ago, when a small group of Canadian priests publicly dissented from Church teaching on some issues of sexual morality, and the bishops of…

A young Irish woman has a question: Last night, a young person showed up on my doorstep and asked if we could talk. For about six weeks, this person, who is a cradle Catholic, suddenly finds herself at odds with the Church on the nature of the Eucharist. Her question has a bit of an…

The American Papist is pulling together a list of rumored and confirmed papal voyages.

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