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This is one of those stories I waited a bit for posting because, once again, translation issues could have been problematic. Time has passed (well, a couple of days), and so CwNews has a more thorough report than that which first appeared in the secular reports: What Benedict said to the Roman Rota, the ……

The Inquisition returns – The four-part documentary on the UKTV History channel draws on research gleaned from Vatican files only opened to scrutiny in 1998. It highlights periods of the persecution that began in the 13th century and ended only in the late 1800s. The Inquisition was established by Pope Gregory in 1233 as a…

At Mirror of Justice, Greg Sisk with an extended post on what Benedict has to say about the role of the Church in public life: In emphasizing the proper role of the Church in the awakening and formation of conscience, while insisting the the Church must not enter into the “political battle” that remains instead…

There is discussion here and there about the future of the leadership of the Jesuits. It’s sort of convoluted, but the Society’s Superior General is said to have met with Benedict many times over the past months, and the decision has been made to convene a General Convention in 2008: Unlike practically every other religious…

What I’ve been waiting for – Christopher Blosser at the Ratzinger Fan Club with scads of links to analysis and reactions to the encyclical.

With this Rome stuff, everything has hinged on when we’d get our Scavi tour reservations. Well, I got the confirmation today – two weeks after I submitted the request, which is pretty quick. But we are going off-season and I gave them almost a full week that was open. So, Thursday morning, March 2 for…

Tomorrow night, at 7 – Michael and I will be speaking at St. Joan of Arc in Powell, Ohio – along with David Hartline of the Catholic Report, who’s arranging the event – come and see! (More info on right sidebar)

A couple of finds… Rich Leonardi’s brief, poignant word snapshots of his father’s funeral TSO’Rama is without doubt one of the finest writers in St. Blog’s. Go read his report of his recent (and ongoing? I don’t know) cruise to see why. Lyrical. The end of a cruise is a fine time for multiple listenings…

Well, I finally got around to watching last week’s Lost. (Explanation: I usually don’t watch it when it airs because Katie has basketball practice, and doesn’t get home until around 9:30) (Yeah, let’s go into why 8th grade girls are having to hold their practice from 7:45-9:30 at night. Or let’s not, if we want…

I have no idea what common hymn we all could have heard this week. Perhaps the question of the day will be – how did your parish mark the beginning of Catholic Schools Week, if it did so? I doubt any of you can top Rich Leonardi I can’t. Our music was, as usual, unmemorable,…
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