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This subject is one of constant debate and discussion, and this is one of those moments in which, for some reason, the discussion is louder than usual. What did the Founders believe and when did they believe it? Michael Novak and his daughter Jenna have recently had the book Washington’s God published, which they discuss…

We sometimes highlight children’s books here. Not high literature, exactly, not the classics, but new titles that have engaged the almost-reader in our household and not bored his mother by repeated readings. This week’s winner is: Amazon listing here. Checked it out on Sunday. Have had to read it every night since, and I’m thinking…

So why not sell your eggs? Five years after a trade group tried reining them in, fertility clinics and brokers are bidding up prices for eggs sold by cash-strapped college women with top test scores and picture-perfect looks. Advertisements in campus newspapers and on websites plead daily. “Egg Donors Needed. $10,000,” says one in The…

In a comment below, TSO, well, comments on Michael’s remark elsewhere of his experience of always being taken for…an American (or at least an English speaker) in Rome, even before he had ever opened his mouth. This had become somewhat of a running joke with him over the week, but I never really saw it…

It’s always a big concern for American travelers…will we look like tourists? How should we dress and act so we "fit in?" Part of the concern is safety, I do believe. No one wants to be a target. But part of it also stems from, well, wanting to look like you belong in the place…

I just want to clarify something I wrote in the Scavi post. As I recall, the tour guide (who of course was not just doing her own thing, but was acting as a representative of the site managers, aka the Vatican) was carefully-almost-agnostic about the bones. She didn’t quite say "We don’t know" but she…

Mirror of Justice has several posts and ongoing commentary, mostly on the Boston situation. A question at the Commonweal blog, to which Greg Popcak responds Greg’s commentary is also at HMS Jeff Jacoby’s commentary Denver Catholic Charities’ statement (pdf format) – a bit different than SF and Boston.

The Scavi tour offers a perfect, if counter-intuitive lesson in Marketing 101: 1) Severely restrict access 2) Create a strict process for obtaining access 3) Make that process totally mysterious 4) Intimidate inquirers into meek submission And so, my friends, that is why you will find the famed Scavi Tour of the excavations under St.…

Pope praises Ukrainian Catholics: Today, the Vatican released a letter sent by Pope Benedict XVI to Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, major Archbishop of Lviv of the Ukrainians, recalling the forced fusion of Catholics into the Orthodox Church by the communist Soviet government in 1946. The Pope’s message served to mark what he called "the sad events…

The UK Tablet has published a list of who they believe to be the UK’s 100 most influential Roman Catholics. The article isn’t published online, but here’s a story in the Telegraph: And here’s the top 10. Who is "Delia Smith, cook" – #9? Oh, okay – I see.
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