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For those of you who are still catching up with the Philadelphia Grand Jury report, here’s a summary from the National Catholic Reporter (And here’s the detailed breakdown of the report from Bishop Accountability) Here’s the press release on the agenda for the November bishops’ meeting: The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) will…

He’s been silent for a couple of weeks, but today Sandro Magister is back – no real news, but more of a summary of the Benedict papacy so far. The gist? Benedict wants the Church to be leaven, salt, seed and light, and is interested in encounter and dialogue with the world, from a standpoint…

In a Coptic monastery, the distant past is very close at hand: The Rev. Maximous Elantony was one of those men drawn to the desert in search of a relationship with God. But he could hardly believe it when he recently helped to discover some of the earliest physical evidence of Christians who made that…

An odd attack in Decatur, Alabama – during Mass A page from the church’s website about their new icon Some wonder if this article, in Saturday’s Decatur paper, inspired the attack. The attackers look mighty jovial in those mug shots…

A bit on the discussion at the synod today Monsignor Pierre Antoine Paulo, bishop of Haiti, said that "under certain conditions" the Catholic Church allowed communion to be taken by people who were technically in a state of sin. "We have to ask ourselves whether in particular cases, as already happens for certain sinners, it…

Prior to this year, in the course of your legal career have you ever been involved in any Supreme Court litigation? Have you ever been consulted about such litigation? Has it ever occurred to anyone to consult you about it? He’s just bitter.

…Coming next week to Biola University – a gathering of Christian bloggers. From one of the organizers: Recently, Hugh Hewitt scholarshipped 20 Biola students’ registrations for the upcoming GodBlogConference. The Torrey Honors Institute would like to respond in kind by scholarship 10 Roman Catholic students who blog and 10 Eastern Orthodox students who blog. If…

First Catholic school reopens in New Orleans…first school, actually, since the public schools are still closed. Mass at St. Louis Cathedral: As residents, politicians, the military and others who have worked to save New Orleans listened and prayed during the Mass, reporters and photographers from across the country captured tears of sadness, clasped hands and…

…in Australia SIGN in English and Vietnamese outside St John the Evangelist Catholic Church in East Melbourne lists times for Mass (gio le) on weekdays (ngay trong tuan) and weekends (cuoituan). The first words from the Gospel of St John on an archway of the ornate, high-ceiling church in Victoria Road — "Verbum Caro Factum…

The Church and politics in Italy For four decades after the end of WWII, the Catholic Church wielded power in Italy through the Christian Democrats, so thorougly discredited by corruption scandals that the party was dissolved in the early 1990s after its last Premier, Giulio Andreotti, was found by a court to have extensive Mafia…
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