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Make your October plans…in Minneapolis – St. Paul a big event is planned!

I was putting powder on the baby yesterday, something I rarely do, but his diaper parts were showing the wear and tear of sitting in the car for a couple of days. Joseph was watching. His question was simple. "Why are you putting flour on him?"

During today’s Angelus, Pope Benedict spoke about…Benedict There is a particular aspect of his spirituality, which today I would particularly like to underline. Benedict did not found a monastic institution oriented primarily to the evangelization of barbarian peoples, as other great missionary monks of the time, but indicated to his followers that the fundamental, and…

In the Guardian, Karen Armstrong searches for a way to refer terrorists who are Muslim We rarely, if ever, called the IRA bombings "Catholic" terrorism because we knew enough to realise that this was not essentially a religious campaign. Indeed, like the Irish republican movement, many fundamentalist movements worldwide are simply new forms of nationalism…

A reader writes of her daughter’s high school reading list (summer reading or the syllabus for next year [which in her town means in about a month] – I’m not sure which), which includes The Red Tent. Well, they have a choice. Either The Red Tent or A Prayer for Owen Meany. I’ve never read…

Very nice new blog from the Education Director of the Seattle Opera…oh, it’s a blog with a Catholic focus. Post your blog-doings and new blogs here!

Ah, the Catholic liturgy. This morning at Mass, our music minister was evidently on vacation. The music was provided by two different groups. Providing the offertory, one of the communion hymns and something else in an odd place (too long to explain) was a nice schola of 9 men whom I’ve seen and heard around…

Some moments from the road: 1) A line of electrical line repair trucks – about 40 strong – just south of Cincinnati, headed south. 2) Law enforcement…saw COPS replayed all over the place. Three police with dogs, searching by the side of the road north of Chattanooga. Trunks being searched on the side of 75…

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