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Agca credits Vatican Agca will be set free on parole by Turkish prison officials on Thursday, January 12. He has been serving out an earlier jail sentence in Turkey since being pardoned by Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi in 2000. In a letter sent to the Italian daily La Repubblica, Agca offers his "deepest gratitude…

John Thavis of CNS on Benedict’s ad libbing: When the pope presided over a Mass in the Sistine Chapel to baptize 10 infants in early January, he was supposed to deliver a sermon presumably prepared by his staff. The text, released to journalists ahead of time, was nothing special. Maybe that’s why the pope pitched…

A bit more speculation on the timing and process of the release Asca mentiones that in any case, the Encyclica will be made public before January 25, and on that day, the Pauline magazine "Famigli Cristiana" will publish the entire text of the Encyclical. For the occasion, Famigli Cristiana will print a million copies and…

A lengthy, and I believe, fair-minded piece in Commonweal on the controversies surrounding the return of Jewish children sheltered by Catholics during World War II. The writer seeks to put the document that surfaced last year – an advisory document from the Vatican to the French Church which some spun as evidence of a determination…

Via First Things, a list of last year’s engagments, for the doubters.

We’ve been following this for a while…the initial dissatisfaction with the assignment of Bishop Braxton to this diocese to replace now-Archbishop Gregory, the growing complaints about style and substance. It’s all been rather confusing, although this new piece from the NCR(eporter) does clear things up a bit because the writer is at least familiar with…

The Roaming Roman went there after Christmas and loved it – scroll down for lots of photos. A vague piece about a "Vaitcan" directive imposing discipline on some Polish priests who, it seems, are doing their own thing…

A few weeks back, several people sent me links to a story about a purportedly new rage among Quebecois, of eating unconsecrated hosts as snacks. I never blogged it because …well, my instincts told me not to bother. Blogging Canadian priest Father Thomas Dowd takes time to thoroughly debunk the story as reported, and to…

Fr. Rob Johansen had questions about a Biography Channel special on Terri Schindler Schiavo that aired last night (post was written before airing, and based on concerns raised by Terri’s parents) My suspicion regarding this is reinforced by this salient point: The Schindlers were never approached by anyone from The Biography Channel or A&E (The…

General Audience day: Conscious of being just a “murmur”, man is astonished to discover the Messiah with him, the Lord of the universe, who “lowered the heavens” as described in Psalm 143. Such was the subject the Pope spoke about in this week’s general audience in the Paul VI Hall before a crowd of 8,000…
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