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Sr. Patricia Proctor, OSC, is seeking personal stories for her forthcoming book, 101 Inspirational Stories of the Sacrament of Reconciliation. She’d like to hear from you – and I know you can help her out! Here’s a link where you can real more about it and submit – the deadline is 2/28. 1. Your story…

A short piece in Publishers’ Weekly that mentions the series, along with a new novel Loyola is publishing in the fall. The challenges of finding the right buyer and use for Stanbrook Abbey, the monastery on which In This House of Brede was based.

You might recall Jody Bottum’s Weekly Standard piece of a few days ago, suggesting that the relative political weakness of the Catholic hierarchy in the U.S. is balanced out by a paradigm for thinking through public policy questions that owes much to Catholicism and some current intellectual heavyweights trained in the tradition. Today, in the…

Daniel Pipes on Benedict and Islam: He’s commenting on Fr. Fessio’s recent interview with Hugh Hewitt in which Fessio reported on a discussion in which the Pope said that Islam is inherently incapable of adaptation because of its understanding of revelation. Pipes takes issue with that, and then, at the end, reprints a note from…

First, all this "God is Love" stuff. Now this: Godspell? What’s next? He’s gonna have a slide show for the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday? No, wait…that was me..in 1979. I’m just sayin’….

Pope dishes on his encyclical: Pope Benedict XVI (bio – news) today ended speculation about the publication date for his first encyclical, Deus Caritas Est, by announcing at his regular weekly public audience that the document will be released on January 25. Speaking to 8,000 people in the Paul VI auditorium, the Holy Father drew…

Some pro-lifers are pleased with the Senator: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, one of the Republican Party’s most outspoken pro-choice members, has become an unlikely hero among conservatives opposed to abortion for his handling of President Bush’s judicial nominations.     "Our organization doesn’t agree with Senator Specter on many of the issues," said…

A long Washington Post piece on problems in a DC-area parish. The unusual public confrontation last month between priest and parishioner was one more point of friction in a year-long dispute — Alston calls it a crusade — in which a cadre of longtime members at Our Lady, one of Washington’s historically black Catholic congregations,…

Robert King, OP writes, in regard to "A Pro-Life Rift?" below: I read this post and the comments, and I think your San Francisco Bay Area readers would be quite interested in a forum that Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology is holding in Berkeley, titled “Stem Cell Research: A Dialogue” featuring presentations by Dr.…

Some updates on various canonization causes, via the Criterion Online blog of the Indy Archdiocesan paper: Archbishop Sheen Frank Parater of Virginia Bishop Brute of Vincennes
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