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Prayers and good wishes to Domenico Bettinelli and Melanie Scott, to be married tomorrow!

Dare we hope? And the second bit of good news came a few weeks ago with the publication of an anthology of antagonists of Theory, Theory’s Empire. This is a door-stopper of a book with essays by eminent and often angry critics, philosophers and social scientists. The selection is a bit uneven, with some contributors…

Questions in England about a Catholic hosptial, a favorite of birthing celebrities, and its future plans St John and St Elizabeth, which was founded in 1856 by Cardinal Wiseman, already sub-lets part of its buildings to allow six NHS GPs to run surgeries on its premises. As part of its expansion programme, it is also…

I’ll be pulling together those links this weekend – so if anyone has any to add, please post or email. Posting is better.

As some of you may know, Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life is in the process of forming a Pro-Life society of priests, called Missionaries of the Gospel of Life The society will have a lay association, as Tim Drake describes in this NCR(egister) story: While Priests for Life does not yet have the…

From the Daily News Philip DeFilippo grew suspicious when his wife began working long hours and left instructions to call only in an emergency when Clark took her on business trips to Lisbon, Portugal, and St. Bart’s in the Caribbean. NYPost But yesterday, Philip DeFilippo, who turned to the media to air his family’s dirty…

The main threads of conversation about the Clark situation seem to have settled on the question of what does an incident like this mean for our faith? The question can be broken down into two more: 1) Does it discredit faith to the outsider? 2) Does it strike a  blow to the faith of one…

LDS and RC work together to help out in Niger The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints donated the emergency relief after being contacted by Catholic Relief Services. John Rivera, a spokesman for CRS in Baltimore, said his agency and the LDS Church have long been partners on relief projects, most recently during the…

We’ve talked about this book before of course, when it was first published, but you might want to know that Regina Doman’s wonderful book on life in the womb is now out in paperback. I can’t really say enough about this book except that every house with a child should have one. You can read…

The import of the Clark story is, aside from the basics, his position as a trusted spokesman for orthodox Catholicism, which includes (I should say included – it’s been cut) a program on EWTN called "Relationships." His most recent moment in the glaring spotlight came a couple of years ago when he delivered a homily…

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