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A look at an early, unpublished work, in The Tablet: The ability to dissect Marxism and reassemble it in a Christian form made Karol Wojtyla a potentially significant Catholic thinker. It would take him another two decades to perfect this approach in The Acting Person (1969) – a book that was studied, much to Wojtyla’s…

Ken Woodward, with a good summary of the Limbo business, in the WSJ Mark Shea, with perspective on that "re-evaluating Judas" story from the Times UK today

Friend of the blog David Kubiak sends in a note about last night’s ABC Nightline, which featured an interview of the abortionist who was the focus of that LATimes story a few weeks back. Here’s the story from the ABC site. Here’s the original LATimes piece Here’s a Get Religion look at the LATimes reporter…

They’re into art and everything…

Lots of hoopla last week about NBC’s The Book of Daniel, hoopla which seemed to me to be wasted, because, as I said at the time, this apparent attempt to clone Desperate Housewives into an Episcopal rectory, airing at 10 o’clock on a Friday night did not seem to me to be a hit in…

Today, the Pope received 200 families from the NeoCatechumenal Way in audience: Today in the Vatican, Benedict XVI received a group from the Neocatechumenal Way, including 200 families who will soon depart on evangelizing missions in various countries, especially in Latin America. These "mission families" came into being in 1986 in response to a call…

Mirror of Justice, the blog run by many law professors interested in Catholicism, the law and life in the academy among other things, has several posts on the Wheaton matter

…at least on TBN. You either don’t know or don’t care, but Hal LIndsey’s show was dropped from TBN because his views could be offensive to Muslims. Me, when I think of Hal LIndsey, all I can think of is seeing him at a Bahama Breeze in Orlando around CBA time, wearing a Florida-looking shirt,…

Apparently for five years now, the USCCB has been in various forms of litigation against the Media Research Center. Huh. At issue? Three letters: C.N.S. From their battlements at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops they have been wagging a pettifoggers’ war with MRC over a nonsense at the cost of hundreds of thousands…

Conversation snippet that tempted me stop and dawdle over the detergent, except that I had somewhere to be and two little ones on the edge of meltdown (well, one…Michael the Baby was just on the edge of falling out of the cart, since I picked the only one without a functioning seat belt, apparently…) Anyway.…

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