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…can make sense of China-Vatican relations right now, please enlighten the rest of us. Underground bishop arrested Monsignor Julius Jia Zhiguo, age 70, underground Bishop of Zhengding (Hebei, northern China), was arrested outside his home yesterday at 3:30 p.m. (local time).  News of his arrest came from the Kung Foundation.  Bishop Jia was taken away…

Anyone still there? Well, blogging to you from a lovely hotel off I-75 in south Gainesville, FL. In a very, very, quiet room… Michael went off to look for the Marlins’ game on television somewhere, Joseph was picked up by his paternal grandparents to go visit his cousins and so it’s just me and MJ,…

Much commentary over the past few days about Noah Feldman’s NYTimes Magazine article about Church and State, including MIrror of Justice, naturally. A rather different comment is found at The Revealer, where the Times is roundly mocked for deciding that this new book on religion is worth excerpting, when the Times would never, in a…

..and such. William Doino, one of the editors of the excellent anthology The Pius War, writes to share a link to an article he wrote for the Dawson (as in Christopher) Newsletter on the Medieval Period, the Renaissance, and the relative merits of each, particularly the latter.

From a reader: The following may be of interest to those who like to listen toliturgical music. Recently, the Metropolitan Cantor Institute(Ruthenian Metropolitan Church of Pittsburgh) put these recordingsonline: Sunday Matins Tone 4: http://metropolitancantorinstitute.org/recordings/SundayMatinsTone4/                     and The Resurrection Matins for Pascha: http://metropolitancantorinstitute.org/recordings/ResurrectionMatins/ These are high quality mp3 recordings entirely…

Couple of ethicists wonder if Catholic medical schools can do the job In an article in the Medical Journal of Australia, bioethicist Ian Kerridge and colleagues say the West Australian-based University of Notre Dame medical school may threaten just provision of health care. An Australian Associated Press report in Saturday´s Sydney Morning Herald says ethicists…

In Western PA, at least For many Catholic churches in Western Pennsylvania and for volunteer fire departments as well, the summer carnival has been a mainstay of fund raising for generations, a big business that requires precision planning, attention to detail and months to organize. But with rising costs, a shortage of volunteers and competition…

Second-oldest son David arrived for a short visit from Virginia today, armed with his laptop, so I could see his films that I’d not been able to get to work on my computer at home – I had one of the old batch – based on the Knight’s Tale from The Canterbury Tales and a…

Some word on the movie, consistent with what we’ve been hearing Word is that screenwriter Akiva Goldsman ("A Beautiful Mind," "Cinderella Man") is making plenty of changes – and that downplaying author Brown’s anti-Catholic theme is one of them. For example, the Catholic organization Opus Dei will not play a significant role in the movie,…

Bill Cork reports that the Diocese of Phoenix is going to restore the original order of the Sacraments of Initiation and celebrate Confirmation before First Communion. The pastoral letter from the bishop is very good and thorough, even though it is on the web as an evil pdf document. The decision was made through consultation…
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