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A story about a Redemptorist mission in Thailand (with Wisconsin roots) As motorcycles growled down uneven dirt roads outside, children inside the Human Development Foundation, a charity for street children, cleared their plates and opened their math books. With toothy grins and scrawny bodies, the children appeared 6 or maybe 8 years old. But they…

Photo of the new LIckona here Warning: Pre-menopausal women view at your own risk…

Questions continue to crop up about Harry Forbes, one of the film reviewers employed by the USCCB. First came the Brokeback Mountain affair, the final act of which – a heavily redacted review – is summarized by Jimmy Akin, here. (And just a reminder…Victor Morton, Rod Dreher, and Steven Greydanus have all written at length…

From Zenit, a response to the Congregation of Divine Worship’s instruction to the Neocatechumenal Way: Q: Some media articles written about this letter presents it as a scolding and as a rejection of the Way by Benedict XVI. Gennarini: There could be nothing farther from the truth. Our relationship with Benedict XVI before becoming Pope…

Disgraced South Korean cloning scientist Hwang strikes back, saying that he did not lie.

Sorry about the delay. Right after that previous post went up, Typepad went kaput, and so I went to bed. What was the liturgy like where you were this weekend? Did the presider make jokes about being hungover from celebrating? (Not him…the congregation). Which of the several themes available did the homilist and liturgy focus…

Computer situation still on edge…I may put a bloggerbleg out for some help for yet another situation, but I’ll wait and see if the answers to my questions come from another source first. Got it? A few things, a couple in this post and another in the next… Saw Capote tonight with son David, who…

From the Pope, too: The Roamin’ Roman has a report from Vespers Giving thanks: Before singing the Te Deum, Benedict XVI saw fit to “to recall in a special way all those who are in difficulties: the poorest and neglected people, all those who have lost hope in a well-grounded sense of their existence, or…

From a long-time reader: Stopped in at the local "religious articles" shop this afternoon. You know the type: rosaries, crosses, holy cards, big "family" Bibles, all kinds of statues, plastic and otherwise, a few books …. As soon as I walked in the owner looked up and smiled. Before I could close the door, she…

Magister on the difficulties of Bethlehem But the reactions drew upon other fears as well. Hanna Nasser, the previous mayor of Bethlehem, a Christian of the current that is close to Fatah, accused the new administration of “spreading Islamic fundamentalism.” It is a fear that took shape after the electoral victory of Hamas, not only…
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