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Just warning you. I have to read and digest this encyclical, then write 1500 or so words on it, the baby’s cold has gone into his eyes and so we have to go to the doctor…

Benedict XVI’s first encyclical: Deus Caritas Est His "introduction," as it were…explaining the thinking behind it.

This fascinates me (and might interest you too, if you know children’s literature) Courtney Love is Paula Fox’s granddaughter.. (A page on Paula Fox, in case you don’t know who she is) Not that Courtney Love knew this – her mother only discovered it as an adult, since Fox had birthed her out of wedlock…

From a USA Today piece about Dominic Monaghan, who plays the drug addict rock musician Charlie on Lost, a head-scratching statement from a producer: The Lost writers concocted quite the dilemma for Monaghan’s Charlie: a Catholic character faced with having to break statues of the Virgin Mary to get to a drug that could end…

Helping dad build a chapel: The man behind the new church is Mel Gibson, according to John Maher, of Greensburg, a member of St. Joseph the Protector Chapel on St. Clair Way in Hempfield Township, another Catholic group that holds weekly Masses in Latin. For several years, Maher and a small group of like-minded people…

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When NCR(eporter) fisks you: In as convoluted a piece of reasoning as we’ve seen in a long time, The Tidings, official newspaper of the Los Angeles archdiocese, declares in its Jan. 13 issue that “the belief that bishops moved child abusers from parish to parish, allowing them to abuse over and over, may well be…

Mark Mossa, S.J. responds to Fr. Neuhaus’ recent FT article: Father Neuhaus and others need to wake up to the fact that the Society of Jesus is not engaged in some vast conspiracy to undermine the Church. It’s a provocative tale to tell, but it’s not the truth. And, also, even if all his charges…

Last Thursday: Former Texas Gov. Ann Richards and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom headlined a $100,000 PPGG (Planned Parenthood Golden Gate) fund-raiser Thursday. Today, PPGG will host a 5:30 p.m. candlelight vigil and walk in honor of women who died from shoddy abortions before Roe v. Wade, starting at Dolores Parks stairs and ending with…

#1 with a bullet….amazing. Ah, short but sweet. Mother A’s back on top…
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