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As I was tapping out the book signing post last night, something was nagging at me. What had I forgotten? Ah yes…from the "It’s a Small, Small, Small SMALL Catholic World" Department: After getting various children settled, I came over to the book table to find Michael chatting with someone. The guy said, "Hi, Amy"…

Very nice book signing gig at the Basilica Shrine of the Immaculate Conception today. I will blog more about our entire weekend when we return home tomorrow, but for right now, let me just say how amazed and generally bowled-over I was today to meet so many wonderful blog-readers. It’s quite late, so at the…

Mario Cuomo and Doug Kmiec on Meet the Press today, on the Roberts nominee: The link is a transcript of the show. Rick Garnett has highlights and comments at MOJ I wish the point had been made that the Church’s teaching on abortion — whatever its merits — is not merely an "ipsedixitism" (assuming that…

Archbishop Levada subpoened just before his last Mass as SF Ordinary Archbishop William Levada, soon to be the highest ranking American at the Vatican, was welcomed to his final Sunday Mass here by thousands of admiring parishioners, a few critics and a subpoena compelling him to testify about sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church.…

Another article on religious women, this time across the sea – this time a BBC report on the cloistered Benedictines whose convent is at Tyburn, the site of many martyrdoms during the 16th and early 17th centuries. The convent’s website.

A very nice article from the local paper about the Sisters of Mary of the Eucharist in Ann Arbor, growing as other orders shrink and age. They were smart. They were good at sports. They were fun to hang out with. But spend the rest of her life with them? Nope, not what Showalter planned.…

Various spots and places for you to check out: Slate readers respond to Hitchens (scroll down to 8/2) Rich Leonardi muses about Louisville’s anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic riots in relation to the present day Seat Belt Blues – new blog!

Of course it doesn’t! Oh, but of course it does… Nevertheless, this op-ed tries to bring reason into the Roberts debate: Given those figures, it seems that if Judge Roberts did find Roe to be law in need of revision, he would not be out of step with most Americans, but in fact representative of…

Football player-turned-priest in Milwaukee – If it’s a Sunday and you see 6-foot-5 and 365-pound Mike Lightner wearing green and gold, you could be forgiven for musing about the Green Bay Packers rather than your own salvation – even if you are in church You can’t ignore the imposing physical features of the nearly bald…

Well…if anyone ever wondered what I looked like, take it direct from someone at the booksigning today, who burst out with, "You look just like Bernadette Devlin!" Um, okay.
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