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You could celebrate today’s feast by picking up one of these – or not. And if you want, in the extended text is the recommended prayer service for the day, provided by FutureChurch, which coordinates the celebrations Now, there is not a thing wrong with reclaiming the understanding of Mary as "Apostle to the Apostles"…

Me on this station at about 8:20 am central time, talking about the lady on the top left.

Dallas diocese is broke, needs more money from parishes   The Catholic Diocese of Dallas is asking its parishes to take a little extra out of their collection plates to help pay diocesan legal costs. In a letter sent to pastors this week, Bishop Charles Grahmann said two legal fights were likely to cost the…

A new design for the Ave Maria U chapel has been unveiled. I still don’t like it. It looks like a bug of some sort. Why not a nice, cool, Spanish mission style thing? What’s wrong with that? Anyway, not my college, most definitely not my cash, so I’ll just be quiet now….

Thanks to Bruce and Demi…who named one of their children "Rumer," and are featured in a "wacky celebrity children’s names" special. We hear tell that the show flashes the cover of Brede to make the point.

Christopher Blosser has a great survey of the best of Catholic blogging this week.

Bill Cork tells us about a Goddess Rosary.

Of our 30-day appeal! Put Catholic books on your neighbor’s nightstand, your sister’s coffeetable, your son’s desk. These two books that we’re hoping you’ll buy are written for Every Catholic – they’re solid, but still easy to read and applicable to life. What we sit here complaining about all the time. This is an experiment…

Attorney claims Bishop Pilla perjured himself.

Fr. Jim Tucker with a very good response to a recent US Catholic article on devotions The article raises the usual flags: but will they distract from the Mass? Fr. Jim’s answer is on-point. People who are devoted to one devotion or the other are, as a matter of fact, the same people who are…

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