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Here’s an interesting post from Peter Chattaway about a new film: The Devil’s Miner began as a project about devout Catholics who also happen to worship Satan — or if not Satan himself, then something very much like him. Apparently the Bolivian miners who populate this film do believe that God rules above the ground,…

But it’s Brownback this time, so the vibe is a different one: After testing his stump speech on Tuesday night, Senator Sam Brownback rose early on Wednesday for a tour of the cavernous chapel and regimental dining hall used by the 30 remaining Benedictine monks of St. Anselm’s abbey. "I wondered if the numbers were…

As described by Philly commentor Gerard E., noting this story in today’s Philadelphia paper: Though Krol is dead and Bevilacqua retired, many lesser-known administrators – "enablers" who helped craft the subterfuges or carry them out, according to the grand jury – remain in church posts around the region. Some are pastors. Two are bishops. All…

From the Tablet, an interesting exploration of the design and construction of Notre Dame du Haut by Le Corbusier occasioned by the discovery that it had never actually been consecrated – a situation that was rectified this past September. More on the chapel, lincluding interiors.

A RC theologian on RC-Orthodox discussions: "New people mean new initiatives. There’s clearly been some serious rethinking, and a new sensitivity on issues which have never been settled,” said Professor Waclaw Hryniewicz, director of the Ecumenical Institute at Poland’s Catholic University of Lublin. “But there can be no advance in dialogue without a theological and…

I knew about Bishop School, but I didn’t know this: Bishops automatically receive the title of D.D. (doctor of divinity) when they are named to the episcopate.

A few weeks ago, there was a story making the rounds about a researcher who claimed that religious values made a society worse, not better. Here’s an example of one of the articles: "Does Religion Promote Social Dysfunction?" In today’s WSJ, Theodore Dalrymple takes on the "study." Which brings up the question of what should…

Well, my little meter over there is busted, so I guess I will waste some time and surf for another one. I am chugging right along. I have two more chapters to write, then go back and do the introduction, clean up two appendices, and then go back through the WHOLE thing, do rewrites, insert…

John Allen takes stock of the Synod: A dynamic is shaping up at the Synod of Bishops in which the bishops seem, in effect, to be trying to meet their critics half-way. They’re willing to acknowledge, in unusually blunt fashion, certain long-taboo topics as real problems, but not necessarily to embrace the most ballyhooed solutions.

A long, interesting Christianity Today piece, that, in places, seems to crack the "evangelicals bringing Christ to, er, Catholics" template just a teeny tiny bit. By 2000, it was clear that the church boom had failed to arrive as some expected. Religion journalist Jonathan Luxmoore, whose research we’re using throughout this article, reported in the…
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