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Coming this fall from Scott Hahn: Ordinary Work; Extraordinary Grace: My Spiritual Journey in Opus Dei

……a blog, featuring, among other contributors, our friend and very early Catholic blogger Peter Nixon!

Which has the baby so excited he cannot sleep. I am telling you – this baby has been up since around 5:30 AM, and hasn’t napped yet. I have no idea what’s gotten into him – perhaps he thinks the plane ride meant he would be back in Rome at the end of it. In…

The USBishops’ website responding to DVC is up and live – my contribution is under "Truth Be Told." Also contributing are Opus Dei priest Fr. John Wauck and art historian Elizabeth Lev.

I knew at some point we would get over to the Vatican Museums, but I couldn’t quite bring myself to plan it. The lines and crowds at the place are notorious, and even in the old edition of the Georgina Masson book, she gave the same advice I’d read over and over again 40 years…

I’m sort of out of them – the more interesting ones, at least. Katie has two disposable cameras that are currently being developed, and Michael took a couple hundred, so I’ll just wait until they get theirs set up, and I’ll steal.

No visit to Rome with a teenager you would like to impress is complete without a visit to the Capuchin Crypt located under Santa Maria della Concezione . Perhaps you know the story – the chapel is decorated with the bones of 4,000 Capuchin monks disinterred when the church was built. They are – arranged.…

In comments below, Fr. Keyes, aka The New Gasparian, asked if in our Trevi Fountain wanderings, we came across St. Gaspar del Bufalo. Well, as a matter of fact that’s one of the main reasons we returned. Ever since we moved up here, St. Gaspar del Bufalo has been a part of our consciousness in…

Bishop Skylstad accused of abuse A woman has filed a claim that she was sexually abused more than 40 years ago by Bishop William Skylstad, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic bishops and leader of the Spokane Diocese. Skylstad issued a statement Wednesday categorically denying the accusation, saying he has not violated the vow…

On our last full day in Rome, after the 10:30 Latin Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica and our farewell to the Pope at the Angelus, we decided to squeeze in a couple more sites before packing and apartment cleaning commenced. We’d stopped to eat lunch at a place off of Borgo Pio, and since it…
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