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No, it’s someone else. The group includes 31 mostly young priests and seminarians from the faculty of theology and other faculties of the University of Athens. Most importantly, the visit is led by Bishop Agathangelos, director general of the “Apostoliki Diakonia” and representative of His Beatitude Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens and of all Greece. The…

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Hem new clothes I bought because I’m so short and the store didn’t have a petite section…grrr. How is it I always end up on the night before trips doing stuff like this? Not checked yet. Print out all the very helpful emails I’ve received from the likes of Fr. Jim Tucker, The Cranky Prof…

Edward Oakes, S.J. takes on Garry Willls’ latest: What Jesus Meant He traces Wills’ intellectual journey (briefly), gives a nice swipe at the contradictions in Papa Sin, and then comes to this new book, which he first praises for Wills’ treatment of both the Resurrection and the Atonement. Then: But larded throughout these insights are…

Magister on what Benedict has been teaching these past 10 months: He begins with a survey of the new cardinals: Many of those predicted to be made cardinals were passed by. In all of Latin America, the only new red hat will go to a cardinal of Venezuela, a country where the Church is being…

Matt of the Shrine of the Holy Whapping just sent me a file of a 40-page handbook he wrote for students going over to Rome. Incredibly helpful. One of the best things I’ve seen, particularly since so much of it meshes with our interests. Grazie!

A newspaper columnist reveals abuse from his past: The sentence was buried deep within the 247 pages of the recently released deposition given by Joliet Bishop Joseph Imesch as part of a priest-abuse lawsuit pending against him and the Joliet Roman Catholic Diocese. In the glare of the deposition’s sensational revelations about priests hot-tubbing and…

1. Clothes, since I normally live in jeans and my single "speaking" outfit (hey…my audiences don’t follow me around..no one sees me more than once!). Need to leave the heavy jeans at home and find something lighter. Check. 2. Ziploc bags. Check. 3. Dollar Store to stock up on activity and sticker books. Check. God…

I’ve bought my share of guidebooks, yeah, and have been studying them. What’s made the best reading, though, are the two older books linked over there on the right – A Traveller in Rome and A Companion Guide to Rome. The Morton is quite wonderful – His walks around Rome, historical asides and discourses, encounters…

California execution process under, er, fire: The Morales furor began a week ago when U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel declared that California’s three-stage drug cocktail of a sedative, paralytic drug and heart-stopping chemical — the same protocol used in 37 of the 38 states with lethal injection — could mask, rather than eliminate, an inmate’s…
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