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From the Pope’s address at the airport: That so many young people have come to meet the Successor of Peter is a sign of the Church’s vitality. I am happy to be with them, to confirm their faith and to enliven their hope. At the same time, I am sure that I will also receive…

Bishop Wuerl on politicians, abortion and Communion: Anytime a local bishop denies Communion to a politician because of his stand on abortion, the decision can have "national ramifications," Bishop Donald W. Wuerl of Pittsburgh said in a statement exploring ways the U.S. bishops could reach a more united approach to such decisions. "There must be…

If anyone wants to have me come speak in New York between October and February…thanks! Or, I could just try to be a lot less self-indulgent and just a bit holier,  like the POD Dominicans…

The parents who were told by a judge they couldn’t share their Wicca religion with their son received a different decision this week: The court declared that a Marion County judge erred in approving a divorce decree last year that also directed the man and his ex-wife to shelter their son from "non-mainstream religious beliefs…

Fetal tissues heals burns.. One fetus could theoretically provide material for hundreds or thousands of burn victims, although Hohlfeld said he suspected that would not remove some people’s objections to the use of tissue from an aborted fetus. Some people. That means you. Professor Bainbridge comments.

What Catholic agencies are doing

This one from a German public broadcaster. TV? Radio? I dunno. Thank goodness the next one’s in Australia. Some nice photos. And if anyone can tell me what the albed and bishop-type people are doing with their arms on that balcony…thanks.

Please go check out this blog from a Catholic high school teacher who comments here, but is blogging anonymously in case her students ever try to Google her, which is highly likely. It’s very funny – she’s really an excellent writer, which I could always tell from her comments anyway – she should write a…

John Allen files the first of his reports as well as a correspondent’s notebook: Yet among some of the American delegates, there was evidence Thursday that Benedict XVI’s call to a full-bodied, unapologetic version of Catholicism resonated. "As Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, he was like the church’s bulldog," said Pedro Russell, a 21-year-old from Bitteroot Valley,…

A different sort of New York story: In an incredible act of forgiveness, the Long Island woman whose face was shattered when a 20-pound turkey was thrown through her windshield came face-to-face yesterday with the prankster who did it — and hugged him tightly as they both broke down in sobs. Minutes earlier, Ryan Cushing,…
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