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A NYObserver column claims she’s testing the waters: The hunt for the great American Catholic voter of 2008 started in earnest last week, led by none other than New York’s junior Senator, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Speaking about a Republican-passed immigration bill that would make it a felony to be in the United States illegally, or…

Mollie at Get Religion goes ballistic on that WaPo story on the reax to the female altar serrver ban being lifted in Arlington. And she’s right. I linked the piece without much comment, but I was, like some of you, really stunned that the reporter was trolling blogs for reactions – of sort-of anonymous commenters…

Ten years ago, seven Trappist monks living in a long-established monastery in Algeria, were murdered.  This Zenit article recalls the story, from the perspective of another religious, who was present the night the men were kidnapped. Father Thierry Becker, of the Algerian diocese of Oran, was a guest of the monastery the night that the…

A Pope and a Cardinal… First, Benedict’s words to the Roman parish he visited after Mass, here: The faith must be promoted because outside of Italy it is thought that in Rome there are only ceremonies and ecclesiastical bureaucracy, but that there is no great ecclesial life. The latter, however, can be seen precisely on…

I understand this photo was featured in the NYTimes yesterday? Front page, was it? Caption: NYT11) NEW YORK — March 26, 2006 — NUNS-ROLLERBLADE-FLOATER — Sister Mary Elizabeth, left, and Sister Immaculata, with the Sisters Of Life, St. Frances DeChantal Convent in the borough of the Bronx, N.Y., enjoy some exercise on roller blades on…

I have no idea what inspired this story – a feature on vocations recruitment and response. Perhaps it’s the release of the Grassroots Films – produced video called Fishers of Men. (Grassroots has an association of some sort with the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal. It might be simply that they have produced work for…

More snarkiness at my Amazon Connect Author Blog. And if you’re in Southern California, here’s information (pdf file) on my talk in your part of the world at the end of April. Come dialogue!

In the LATimes a few days ago, writer Nora Gallagher notes the anti-Christian talk that comes so easily these days Recent books that are contemptuous of religion in general — Sam Harris’ "The End of Faith" and Daniel Dennett’s "Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon" — compare the worst of Christianity with the…

Another blog from another Catholic student studying Catholic things abroad – this one in Poland. Interesting stuff. Via Whapping

A week from now, we’ll be in South Carolina – details of the talks and booksignings here. I’ve added an other talk to our Michigan swing at the end of April. I’ll be in Kalamazoo on the 29th, in addition to Lansing and Ann Arbor on the 30th. I’ll have details later today…. If you…
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