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Ramesh Ponnuru explains. The question is on the interpretation of giving assistance to the individual. Church officials are claiming that it would put sanctions on anyone who helps an undocumented immigrant, period, for any reason. That seems to be a stretch, according to most people I’ve read – the issue is assisting the individual in…

..a convert in Afghanistan. Might be executed. What’s the US government go to say?

to blogger and frequent commentor Jay Anderson and his wife on the birth of their third child!

Okay, this map is absolutely fascinating. It doesn’t work with 100% smoothness, but my very limited knowledge of one or two parts of Rome tells me that it’s accurate. You click and drag the little girl (sounds harsh, but there it is) in the direction in which you want to go. The map even shows…

TIME on the set: Still, he likes to confound expectations–he wears a cross containing relics of martyred saints, but he can swear like a Quentin Tarantino character–and those who peg him as a reactionary may be surprised to learn that his new film sounds warnings straight out of liberal Hollywood’s bible. Apocalypto, which Gibson loosely…

At St. Paul Outside the Walls, from our very long Saturday…go to Michael’s entry for a very full report and some really good photos, including one of the mosaic of Pope Benedict that’s in the Basilica – and is illuminated. I counted, and there were six empty spaces for future popes. Start your prophetic engines!…

Do go check out this blog post at "Here in the Bonny Glen" about a 21-year old artist’s portrait of John Paul II that’s touring Boston parishes.

One of the real finds of the Loyola Classics series was Things as They Are by Paul Horgan. I can take absolutely no credit for "finding" it, though, since the title was suggested to me by George Weigel. It’s really a marvelous book – the first part of a trilogy, written by the remarkable Paul…

From Lakeland, Florida, of (mostly) fond memory, comes a story by the Lakeland Ledger’s very good religion reporter, Cary McMullen, on Rev. Earl Stallings, a Baptist minister, who was one of the 8 clergymen in Birmingham who supported Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the one who was mentioned by name in King’s Letter from…

On 3/1, I gave a "Theology on Tap" presentation at the Scholars’ Lounge, near the Gesu, in Rome. This past Thursday night, Dr. Scott Hahn gave a presentation, and some of you may have read the Whispers report of what happened – that Dr. Hahn was run off the stage by unruly Irish wanting to…
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