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The book is about revealing truths about history and facts and, of course, evidence. In the experience of so many throughout the world, it is so much more interesting and exciting to learn about those things that have the evidence to back them up. It feels much more real with there is evidence. Evidence is…

An odd tale: Ancona, October 12 – An art expert has uncovered a sculpture of Christ on the Cross he claims Salvador Dali made to thank an Italian friar who exorcised him . Armando Ginesi found the piece, measuring 60cm by 30cm, among the personal belongings of Gabriele Maria Berardi, a friar who died in…

Yesterday afternoon’s synod action involved statements from auditors – many of whom are leaders of some of the New Movements – Focolare, Neo-Catechumenate, etc.

And is very boring

From the Guardian UK A Harvard psychologist named Gordon Allport did some key research in the 1950s on various kinds of human prejudice and came up with a definition of religiosity that is still in use today. He suggested that there were two types of religious commitment – extrinsic and intrinsic. Extrinsic religiosity he defined…

Mark Shea has a great comment from Sherry Weddell (no surprise there) regarding George Barna’s new identification of "the Revolutionaries" as Relying upon national research conducted over the past several years, Barna profiles a group of more than 20 million adults throughout the nation labeled “revolutionaries.” He noted that although measures of traditional church participation…

Faith enters the governor’s race: Kilgore, who has tried to expand the kinds of crimes that would be eligible for the death penalty, has talked about Kaine’s opposition throughout the campaign. But even Democrats were unprepared for the stark and emotional tone of his ads. One features the widow of a Winchester police officer whose…

Thanks to an enthusiastic supporter/organizer, we have a couple of talks scheduled for South Carolina for the first full week in April. Columbia and Charleston at this point.  We’d like to add a couple more – so if you would like Michael to come talk on any number of spiritual topics, including the Mass, or…

From the bishop of Hong Kong There is but “one, holy, Catholic, Apostolic and Roman” Church in China at this point and we can no longer speak of two Churches, so much so that if the government were to acknowledge this, it will also see “the convenience of reaching a normalization” with the Holy See,…

A different sort of take on the Potter series, from the Spectator online (I’ve read the first five, but not the latest one.) Certainly, Harry has just cause for killing the Dark Lord Voldemort, his parents’ murderer. But Harry and his friends do not have a similarly weighty justification for taking revenge against their peers…
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