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It will be interesting to see how this evolves. There is one Catholic on the expert list: Sister Rose Pacatte, FSP, is the founding Director of the Pauline Center for Media Studies in Culver City, CA She has a M.A. in Education in Media Studies from the Institute of Education, University of London, and a…

This question is for those of you who’ve traveled to Rome, or who live there right now…which is a startling proportion of you actually, taken all together. What’s your favorite "underground Rome" site to see? Which catacombs are the most powerful and interesting to tour? Every time I think I’ve got things pretty well figured…

The entire editorial staff of the alternative NYPress walked out and quit because the paper’s management refused to print The Cartoons. This is perhaps the most amazingly brazen moment of inconsistency we’ve seen yet in the press treatment of this material. The paper’s management doesn’t want to offend religious sensibilities? Really? How quickly they forget….…

At Mere Comments, Russell Moore makes some points: Likewise, the latest issue of the Atlantic Monthly features a cartoon pointing out things that are "not conspicuously intelligent design." Most of the items are typical…why does God put the nose on the face, for example. But the last is telling: death. The cartoonist points out that…

Patrick O"Hannigan, aka The Paragraph Farmer, has an excellent post. Interesting stuff, in which The African Queen is invoked. Of course!

The horrific story of the writing of the Kids’ Book of Saints. It’s actually worse than I can communicate. The procrastination, the resultant self-loathing. Oh, the humanity… Not a saintly time, to say the least!

The text of the letter to the Pope from the murdered Fr. Andrea Sanora: I am writing to you in the name of some Georgian ladies of my parish, St. Mary’s in Trabzon (Trebisonda) on the Black Sea, Turkey. They dictated it to me in Turkish, I have translated it for you exactly as it…

Christopher Blosser provides an excellent round-up of Benedict XVI news from the last week. And…another book from Benedict coming soon? (Aside from the new one, linked at Blosser’s Blog…) When it was clear that Pope John Paul II was dying, during the first week of Easter, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was spending time at the…

Sony/Grace Hill Media unveil DVC website today: At a time when conservative Christian groups have been particularly quick to strike back at Hollywood fare they find offensive, Sony Pictures faced a predicament with its coming film "The Da Vinci Code." Should the studio try to mollify the critics who say the "Code" is blasphemy, with…

Composer-priest clarifies Jackson story: But, the priest told Catholic News Service, to have Jackson sing one of the songs or to be part of a choir singing a song might have helped sales, reaching greater numbers of people. However, when a Scottish newspaper published a story Feb. 6 saying there had been "secret discussions between…
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