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The Pope addressed the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith this morning: This morning, Benedict XVI received participants in the plenary assembly of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, telling them that in their service to the entire Church, and in particular to bishops, they must highlight "the centrality of the Catholic…

Two weeks today, we’ll be sitting on a plane, on our way to Rome. What was I thinking?????

MD Senatorial candidate, Lt. Gov. in hot water for comparisons: Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele infuriated some participants at a Baltimore Jewish Council meeting yesterday by raising the specter of Nazi experimentation on Jews when explaining his opposition to embryonic stem cell research. "Look, you, of all folks, know what happens when people decide…

So says a Czech bishop about his nation, in this piece about the struggle between church and state over an important landmark Distilling the spiritual from the secular has proved difficult. A court ruled in 1994 that the cathedral belonged to the church, as it has for much of its history. The verdict was overturned…

At Zenit, Elizabeth Lev recounts the impact of Dante – whom the Pope cited as an inspiration for his encyclical- on her own life. There is a heartbreaking sadness at the center of it, but finally, hope. In her column, she also notes this book: A few weeks ago I was given a little book…

At Mirror of Justice, Robert Araujo, S.J., has a rather lengthy post on the Vatican Press Office’s statement on the Mohammed cartoons: Clerics, men and women religious, and many laity have been physically targeted, sometimes with deadly force. Why? Because of their faith. The Holy See’s diplomatic service is well aware of this and, in…

Naomi Schaefer Riley on Catholic schools being sued by fired teachers. Both cases have been blogged on here in the past: the Queens teacher fired for being pregnant and single, and the Wilmington, DE teacher fired from an Ursuline-run high school for signing an abortion-rights petition and volunteering at Planned Parenthood. Here’s the interesting part…

Go read the Insight Scoop blog to see who Notre Dame just hired and where he came from. Here’s the Christianity Today report: Aside from his scholarly writing, Noll has fostered networks of evangelical scholars. He helped to found the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicalism, and in other informal ways, Noll fostered the…

The Cardinal Newman Society is claiming that a Catholic News Service piece about them is skewed and misrepresents Here’s the CNS article.

Good fruit emerging from the sad Susan Torres situation of last year: Susan died after giving birth to their second child, Susan Anne Catherine, who was born premature after Susan had been declared to be "brain dead", and who also died five weeks later. Still, their lives were an inspiration and Susan and Jason’s marriage…
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