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A little bit from today’s General Audience: Today’s world runs a serious risk of reverting to idolatry, "which is a deceitful form of religion," said Pope Benedict XVI in his General Hearing today, before a massive 50,000-plus crowd gathered at St. Peter’s square. "Idols are nothing but the work of human hands," he said, "a…

From a reader: Just last night my parish had a discussion of "The Da Vinci Code," which I attended, with your book in hand, excited that we would go over the points you made.  Wrong!   The presenter, who is the DRE for our parish, did refute the notion that it was Mary Magdalen in the…

Why they smashed the altar Destroying a church’s altar was a dream realized for one Hartselle man, who claimed his decision to confront a Decatur Catholic congregation during Mass was heaven-sent. In an interview Monday from the visitation room at the Morgan County Jail, Adam Joseph Turgeon, 27, admitted his act of knocking over a…

As you recall, we have blogged here before about the case of Rev. Ryan Erickson, the Diocese of Superior priest who hung himself last December after being contacted by authorities about a double homicide that had occurred a couple of years previously. Earlier this week, there was a hearing, the result of which the judge…

Rosary Novice – a fellow thinking about and praying the rosary, on a learning curve From First Things – Fr. Neuhaus and Jody Bottum so far The Spectator Online – Bloggy jabs from Neumayr (and others) all day, every day!

How to tell if The Lion, the Witch and The Wardrobe is a Christian film: Earlier this month, Disney ran the first test screening of its December release, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe in a California theater. The existence of a screenable print constitutes a kind of opening bell for two questions regarding…

Report from the synod today… (well, actually reporting on yesterday) According to priests who briefed reporters on the synod proceedings in several languages on Tuesday, the debate produced a coarse exchange late Monday between Cardinal Angelo Scola of Venice, the general relator of the synod, and Melkite Patriarch Gregoire III Laham. “Celibacy has no theological…

Rumors on this have popped up over the past few years, but here’s confirmation: Scorcese is, indeed, going to film an adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s novel, Silence (from an interview with his editor) A movie called ‘Silence’, which is based on a great Japanese novel about 16th century Portuguese missionaries in Japan. It’s something very…

Excerpts from today’s Synod speeches are here. Very general. Also in today’s VISEN, a news item about this Sunday’s beatification: At 9.30 a.m. on Sunday, October 9, Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins C.M.F., prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, will preside at a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica during which Cardinal Clemens August…

Bishop visits Kentucky There are no paved roads, running water or electricity in Bishop Nicolas Djomo’s isolated diocese in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Amid dense equatorial forests and extreme poverty, schools and doctors are rare. Malaria and dehydration regularly kill children. War has filled orphanages. Life expectancy for men is about 46 years.…
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