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…besides liturgy…airport security, of course. Peggy Noonan muses that the UAE port outrage seems a bit out of sync, considering the continuing messes of misplaced resources at airport security lines She’s got stories to tell. Everyone’s got one at least. Here’s mine, told here before: Our Fort Wayne airport is small – 8 gates, I…

Yesterday, in his general audience, the Pope embarked upon his "own" catechesis – up to this point, his GA talks had been continuing the planned themes of John Paul II – that catechesis was completed last week, and now, we’ve got Benedict on his own. Here’s the text of yesterday’s talk – and it is…

Come visit with me at an OSV sponsored chat about Mary Magdalene, etc….7pm Eastern today. And also…That podcast I did with Loyola about stuff – mostly my Saints books and the Book of Days – is now available for download. Featuring me and an occasionally squawking Michael the Baby.

Science-types have their issues with Dan Brown as well! (Although John Farrell is both a religious fanatic and a science-type…) I gave a talk at Loyola College in Baltimore a year and a half ago, and afterwords, a sort of old Jesuit came up to me with a pad of paper and said, "I’m a…

Frequent commentor and great friend of this blog, Rod Dreher’s first book, Crunchy Cons, is out: Rod with his two sons – or should we say three? Since writing books is sort of like childbirth. It’s doing quite well at Amazon today, and Rod’s been all over talk radio about it. There’s also a blog…

A survey by Lawrence Cunningham, in Commonweal. The piece is a decent overview, although any critical notes are reserved for certain parties, while other parties are preserved. So, the mild snide tone that permeates the Marian devotion paragraph: If the new ecclesial movements or affiliation with existing religious communities are oriented toward established groups, one…

Curial official says it will, as it always has, start with the religious orders: Archbishop Rode said he’s already seeing signs that the church is responding to the challenge with fresh energy and new forms of religious life. He said he met in January with the pope to present a list of 25 requests for…

Here: Levada, O’Malley and Dziwicz will be the familiar names…. A rundown of the new Cardinals at Closed Cafeteria Ed Peters has a complete list of the College of Cardinals up now for your perusal and contemplation Oh, and The Roaming Roman was there at the General Audience, and reports: A tidbit from the Catholic…

A few days ago, Al Kimel had a post on the phenomenon he named the "Ubiquitous Song Leader" The Sunday Mass needs a cantor. I agree. But it’s a minor role—or at least should be. She should not be the focus of our attention. She should not be standing in front of the congregation at…

…one more person with whom I’m acquainted via The Internets and speaking gig management  writes me to say he’ll be in Rome when we are! Hey! Party and Michael and Amy’s! Rome! 2/25-3/6!
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