{"id":940,"date":"2008-12-09T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T10:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2008\/12\/varia-and-variations.html"},"modified":"2008-12-09T10:00:30","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T10:00:30","slug":"varia-and-variations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/12\/varia-and-variations.html","title":{"rendered":"Varia and variations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cleaning out the emailbox. You know how it goes.
\nFirst, I don’t know if I’ve mentioned Faith and Family Live – the great “magazine and blog of Catholic daily living.”<\/a> Many of you are aware of it and probably frequent visitors, but for those that aren’t – go!
\nSurviving Mumbai – at Catholic Exchange.<\/a>
\nFlockNote – an interesting application designed to enhance communication.<\/a>
\nBishop Alvaro Corrada, SJ,\u00a0 of Tyler ,Texas, has publicly repented for sterilizations performed in Catholic hospitals in his diocese.<\/a>
\nCherie Blair was invited to speak at the Angelicum in Rome. There has been great controversy about this. Fr. Philip Powell, OP, who is over there, comments and hosts a discussion at his blog. <\/a>(Where you will also find good homilies, all the time, consistently.)
\nMore on this last point from John Smeaton, director of the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cleaning out the emailbox. You know how it goes. First, I don’t know if I’ve mentioned Faith and Family Live – the great “magazine and blog of Catholic daily living.” Many of you are aware of it and probably frequent visitors, but for those that aren’t – go! Surviving Mumbai – at Catholic Exchange. 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