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This time from St. Mary’s College in South Bend: The College is currently recommending monetary donations for two groups: The American Red Cross (donate at www.redcross.org) and the Marianite Sisters of Holy Cross. The Marianite Sisters are part of the Holy Cross family and run Our Lady of Holy Cross College in New Orleans. The…

Wow. Got this email. Can’t find anything about in the online version of the Milwaukee paper. We’ll wait to see if they cover it in tomorrow’s edition to start complaining. But with or without coverage, here’s a place that can use your help: If you could help pass this information along, it would be greatly…

Y’all might have heard about the Pope blessing a statue of St. Escriva this morning at the General Audience. Nice! I’m more interested in him blessing the pizza oven. Aren’t you? (It’s going to be used to cook for the homeless…so there.)

Dom Bettinelli has a post about a recent letter sent by the USCCB’s office of Child and Youth Protection basically threatening issuance of some sort of stamp of disapproval (well, non-compliance) to dioceses which let parents opt out of school-based "safe environment" training unless the parents sign letters stating that they were offered the training…

In the Spectator, Patrick O’Hannigan, The Paragraph Farmer, writes a piece about Roberts’ JFK Moment and Rob Vischer’s questions about it at Mirror of Justice. Got it? The moment: Rob Vischer at Mirror of Justice uses a remark by Supreme Court nominee and practicing Catholic John Roberts to pose a not-entirely-rhetorical question. The remark that…

Byron York on Roberts, Day Two: With that, some of Roberts’s supporters began to wince; one conservative observer said shortly afterward that he knew the nominee’s words would cause unhappiness among the president’s pro-life base, who would certainly want to know why Roberts had been quite so respectful of the status of Roe as "settled…

I had one, late last night. Reading a scholarly article on the figure of "Mary" in Gnostic writings, the author made the most blindingly obvious point. Who sez this "Mary" is Mary Magdalene, anyway? And he’s right. In the gnostic writings, most of the time this "Mary" is simply "Mary." There are a couple of…

Every year or so, we see an article about "edgy" church advertising in England. Here’s the most recent offering, this time focusing on ads for the "Alpha" course – the Alpha course is an introduction to basic (might we say "mere?") Christianity that’s been quite popular in England for the last several years. So, I…

Magister on the new Cuban ambassador to the Vatican. The Archbishop of Havana is not pleased. Roa Kourí, 69, is a prominent figure in the Cuban "nomenklatura." He is the son of one of the intellectuals closest to Castro during the revolution, Raúl Roa Garcia. He was an extremely close friend of Ernesto Che Guevara,…

Via Hugh Hewitt, a new web portal called Relief Connections: Please visit and bookmark ReliefConnections.org, and if you are blogger, please tell your audiences about it and perhaps even put a button somewhere on your site. ReliefConnections.org is NZ Bear’s new portal designed to match the needy with the willing and to do so with…
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