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Vatican steps in to help actor who played JPII in film airing tomorrow night on Hallmark a visa Ian Holm is out, John Voight is in, as John Paul in CBS movie

A NYTimes Magazine article about a psychologist working to improve the cognitive futures of premature babies by making life in NICU more like the womb Als also encourages N.I.C.U. doctors and nurses to ensure that the babies experience long periods of near-complete darkness. At Children’s Hospital, when doctors or nurses aren’t working with a baby,…

Another article on the Sisters of Mary of the Eucharist in Ann Arbor, this one from the Detroit Free-Press. Rather unusual for a newspaper article, considering it is structured as a prayer… Dear God: How do you capture the soul of a community? How do you get people to care about a convent? After so…

Well, actually I don’t, but that’s not the point. I mean – it’s fine, and it’s good, but my fundamental lack of ability to engage with some of the discussions we have here is that, as an only child raised in a mixed-religion household in which parish membership/involvement/attachment was so unimportant as to be totally…

…everyone is fighting a great battle…This from a reader who hopes for our prayers for this family: Our good friends, the Browns, are going through the crucible right now.I’m sure you remember, the Browns are a family that converted in themid-90’s en masse from the Presbyterian Church of America.  Bruce andBarbara were guests on "The…

Finally caught Charlie and the Chocolate Factory today. Katie had seen it  a month ago, but this was our first chance to take Joseph, who has been talking about this movie for..a month. Here’s what I thought: Echoing the opinions of some reviewers I’ve read – the first half hour was lovely and almost perfect.…

Very interesting and pertinent piece by Sam Torode, convert from evangelicalism to Orthodoxy, on his renewed appreciation of the former I’m a grateful member of the Orthodox Church, and I’m happy to talk about the glories of this path as well as the struggles. I believe that the "trappings" of Orthodoxy—icons, liturgies, rote prayers, and…

John Allen has an excellent WYD backgrounder today: why the gathering is important, and what to look for in terms of Benedict’s meetings and talks during the event: Third, youth are critical to a pope’s capacity to lift the church out of the ideological ruts of a given era. Adults tend to become locked in…

Christopher Dickey in Newsweek on Pope Benedict and Europe: In the end, there were 74 children—Jewish kids, from the ages of 6 to 18, who in 1942 and 1943 fled from Germany, Austria and Yugoslavia as their parents disappeared into the Nazis’ concentration camps. With borders closing all over Europe, a Zionist organization smuggled them…

Over the past week, Bishop Olmsted of Phoenix has made some waves. He had issued the decision – to ban abortion and gay-marriage supporting politicians from speaking at Catholic institutions – last December, but it surfaced again this past week, as described in this linked article. A clarification appeared at LifeSite news: One Arizona online…
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