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A 12-year old boy gets the idea to start a Cub Scout pack for homeless boys. Sweeney spent hours every week planning Cub Scout meetings; arranging hikes, field trips and guest speakers; recruiting volunteers; tracking his Cubs and making sure they had a ride to each week’s meeting. He lined up donors who provided uniforms…

Also via Rocco, the transcription, available in Adoremus, of last month’s US bishop’s discussions of the liturgical translations. Very interesting reading. Now if we could hear their discussions of sexual abuse matters…. Cardinal George: Yes, thanks, Bishop Trautman. As a member of ICEL, as your representative among the eleven bishops who are the ICEL commission,…

A nice video reflection, via the Catholic Communications Campaign Via Rocco

Magister on a recent gathering to discuss the historical relations between Christianity and Islam But the analysis at the December 13 meeting at the Lateran concentrated above all on the history of the relationship between Christianity and Islam. The occasion for the meeting was the fifth centenary of the birth of saint Pius V, the…

Or not… This, via CWNews, is interesting – a report on a Catholic-Jewish meeting in which Cardinal Keeler assuaged concerns about an article: In response to concerns from the Jewish side about a recent article by an eminent Catholic theologian that seemed to step back from the Church’s commitment to the ongoing nature of God’s…

…or not. In Russia where "ultra-Orthodox" will protest in front of the RC Cathedral on Christmas Eve.

From the Pope! Awesome. I see from a quick survey, from Zadok to Fr. Tucker to Whapping, everyone’s stoked about the hat, but let’s calm down and contemplate what the man said: Holding the audience talk on the Northern Hemisphere’s shortest day of the year, Pope Benedict said the Christmas use of light helps people…

Victoria Osteen on board, delays flight for two hours for other passengers. Via Bill Cork, who has lots of other interesting posts, including a link to a page that purports to have detected a funny hidden image in the Gibson trailer, but I can’t find it, and I think it must be a joke –…

Just returned from  Katie’s Christmas program, and I am pleased to report that the music was 95% religiously-themed, and that which was not was "Deck the Halls" and such. Not a Santa or Rudolph in sight. Faith restored. We can believe in something….now.
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