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…having to write about Holy Week with the Christmas tree in the next room. But…work calls, once again.

"The best kept secret in Dallas" Makes you just want to….pray. (Via Envoy Encore)

For those of you with friends and acquaintances impressed by ABC’s report…Patrick Madrid sets the record straight

Italian judge tells priest to prove Jesus’ existence AN ITALIAN judge has ordered a priest to appear in court this month to prove that Jesus Christ existed. The case against Father Enrico Righi has been brought in the town of Viterbo, north of Rome, by Luigi Cascioli, a retired agronomist who once studied for the…

…be patient. I got a few orders over the past week, including one of the whole set, but I was out of a couple of titles, Loyola was shut down until today, so I won’t be restocked until the end of the week. Thanks for your patience!

But better late than never…lots of folks have already linked to this, so I’ll just join them. Fr. Phillip Powell, OP’s "Mechanics of a Homily" – since that’s a subject oft discussed here…

Let’s gather them up in this thread. I’ll start: Maior autem his est caritas from India – and from a commentor here. He has a detailed description of the Mass he attended Sunday, interesting links like this one about a "Bible in inverse" being presented to the Pope. As well as travel tales!

….to get someone to translate Magister’s blog into English. Why not? It seem to have interesting stuff, from what I can tell via my Italian-via-French-and-Latin-skilz.

Late last week, a bankruptcy judge ruled that the Archdiocese of Portland owns its property: A bankruptcy judge ruled Friday that the Archdiocese of Portland, not its parishes, owns church assets, dealing a major blow to its efforts to protect church property from lawsuits filed by alleged victims of priest sex abuse. The Portland archdiocese…

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