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The text of commentary that Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa, the preacher to the Pontifical Household, prepared on the Gospel of this Sunday, the Baptism of Jesus The feast of the Baptism of Jesus is the annual occasion to reflect on our own baptism. A question people often ask themselves about baptism is: Why baptize small…

A very interesting discussion of the Wheaton situation, blogged below, at TitusOneNine, an Anglican weblog, in case you didn’t know. Some commentors there are on the ground at Wheaton and environs, which is helpful. (Just a Wheaton note. There is an excellent Catholic bookstore in Wheaton that is right on the main street, is very…

Today, at the Mass we attended, the Rite of Welcoming was celebrated from 1 catechumen and 6 candidates – always nice to see, although the presider does things not quite right – rather than replacing the Opening Rite with the Rite of Welcoming, he just adds it. But ah, well. The music was fairly standard,…

From the Office of Readings: John is baptising when Jesus draws near. Perhaps he comes to sanctify his baptiser; certainly he comes to bury sinful humanity in the waters. He comes to sanctify the Jordan for our sake and in readiness for us; he who is spirit and flesh comes to begin a new creation…

A WaPo piece taking a closer look at the purported age-old war between science and religion ….or not. As a science-minded kid in the ’60s, I loved to read stories about the march of science against the unholy trinity of ignorance, superstition and dogma. Dogma was the worst, and so the early 17th-century drama of…

In the newest issue of Foreign Policy, there’s a profile of Sandro Magister, known to us through his articles on this website. It’s fairly short, not available online, and written, interestingly enough by Stacey Meichtry, who works with John Allen in Rome. What’s interesting about that is that Meichtry highlights the irony of Magister (A…

A hint from the USCCB… The US Conference of Catholic Bishops will probably give the film an O for "offensive" rating, said spokesman Monsignor Francis Maniscalco. "There was so much misinformation in the novel – if that is repeated in the movie we would need to do something to advise people about its inaccuracies," Monsignor…

There’s a quite interesting piece in the WSJ today about professor’s faith and religious colleges and universities. The general point concerns some institutions’ determination to beef up their particular religious identity. Notre Dame is mentioned as committed and succeeding in this regard, and Boston College is noted: At another Catholic school, Boston College, some administrators…

…with Fr. McBrien’s column was that he did not address the issues. He did not honestly confront Menino’s stances on the issues at hand and put them up against Catholic teaching. He did not address the substance of the protesters’ arguments. He tossed out some stereotypes, added some uninformed comments about Life on The Internet,…

A NW spokesman reponds to Jimmy Akin’s characterization of his Zenit interview as "spin" Jimmy Akin’s response Magister’s original article, and here is the Zenit interview Also, in the Word from Rome, the same spokesman responds to John Allen
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