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I’ll try. But this Internet Monk post on Joel Osteen’s inaugural sermon was too good to pass up. This was one of the big religion stories last week, so we’re justified in coming back to it as new comments pop up. Further, it gives the Catholic readership of this blog some context. Religious life in…

David Brooks on the upcoming confirmation. A fascinating observation: I love thee also, Roberts nomination, because now we probably won’t have to endure another bitter and vulgarized chapter of the culture war. Confirmation battles have come to seem of late like occasions for bitterly divided Catholics to turn political battles into holy war Armageddons. Most…

Sharp! Yesterday afternoon, Benedict XVI made a trip to Val Grisanche in the alpine region of Valle d’Aosta in northwest Italy where he is spending his vacation. On his return to the chalet in which he is staying, he paused to greet a group of young people and to answer questions from journalists.   As…

Someone wrote me earlier this week and asked how many of readers were lawyers. Heh. As long-time readers know, that’s a running joke around here. I’m always wondering if some of these voluminous legal-related comments threads are billable hours. My explanation is that lawyers are generally smart, verbal people who are at their desks a…

Stephen Dillard on the case Whitewashing the racist/anti-Catholic legacy of Justice Hugo Black: That is apparently the full-time job of Steve Suitts–author of the recently published "Hugo Black of Alabama: How His Roots and Early Career Shaped the Great Champion of the Constitution," founder of the Civil Liberties Union of Alabama, and third-rate hack. In…

in relation to the murder of the bishop in Kenya

Lengthy, fair personal and professional profile of Roberts from the NYTimes And from LA, details on Mrs. Roberts’ association with Feminists for Life Feminists for Life. By the way, a long, long time ago, I actually held national office with FFLA. Hard to conceive how that happened. It was in the mid-80’s, and I was…

Long, fair piece on Roberts’ personal and professional background,from the NYTimes.

Bethany changes policy. Will place children with RC couples. So. Are we Christians now?

Well, one at least: I recently purchased both books. How to Get the Most Out of the Eucharist was obtained to review it for addition to our parish library. I haven’t been able to give up my copy, either to share or place on the library table. I had mistakenly thought it might be helpful…
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