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A sort of interesting slideshow at Slate, examing the architecture of Lakewood, Crystal Cathedral, Willow Creek, a new LDS structure in Salt Lake City, and the LA Cathedral. He actually gives the Crystal Cathedral props for being the most religiously evocative of the lot. What he misses, I think , (and given that this piece…

A site and a cause from an Ave Maria School of Law professor, inspired, I think, in part by the experience and perspective of Bai MacFarlane The TrueMarriage project seeks to ensure that religious marriages and other fundamental aspects of marriage are recognized by the civil authorities. Currently, all marriages are treated like "no fault"…

My son who is taking a course from A Famous Poet reports that the class has not had to write a poem in three week. The Poet was off to a medical appointment one day, had to meet with the University president another, they watched a movie another, a film chosen to illuminate the Poet’s…

If you frequent Catholic blogs, you might remember, all of a week or so ago, a story about the Catholic bishops in the UK issuing a doc about Scripture which, according to the news accounts was some radical departure because it warned Catholics not to be literalists in their reading of Scripture. I never blogged…

It’s late, and I’m tired, so maybe I’m misreading, but is this piece by actor Michael Moriarty on Tom Hanks, DVC and Hilary Clinton just totally whack? Or is it satire? I really want to think so…but it seems as if he’s taking Brown at face value. Very, very weird.

Yes, Synod doings continued on Saturday. Saturday morning’s interventions. Some highlights: First, From Cardinal Szoka, retired of the Archdiocese of Detroit. The fIrst Synod I attended was in 1983. In the last 15 years, I have participated in every Synod except one. In the fonnal presentations during the disceptatio generalis, there seemed to be a…

Okay, I put this page through BabelFish and got nonsense. It’s Sandro Magister blog (yes he has one, but it’s only published in Italian) and what interests me is the second item down, about Bruno Forte, which the translator fashions as "Tawny Strongly," which is pretty funny, and even I can sort of see why.…

A profile of St. John Vianney in Minnesota Imagine this scene: It’s 6 a.m. on a wintry day. More than 100 young men wipe the sleep from their eyes and gather in a dark chapel, heads bowed, for an hour of silent prayer. An Irish monastery, circa 1450 A.D.? No, it’s a typical morning at…

What Fr. Erickson said that got detectives suspicious During the questioning, Erickson mentioned to Hudson detectives Shawn Pettee and Jeff Knopps two small details about the killings that had never been made public: the positions of the two bodies inside the funeral home and a description of how Ellison had been coming through a doorway.…

You might be interested in knowing that Alex Jones was just recently ordained a permanent deacon in the Archdiocese of Detroit Via Bill Cork An article about Jones’ conversion – he was a Pentecostal minister, and he and many of his congregation converted to Catholicism. Great story!
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