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President Bush with a group of nuns during a visit to the Church of the Beatification on the Mount of the Beatitudes in Israel, on Friday January 11. Photo by: David Furst, AP

Following custom, Pope Benedict performed several baptisms today. But he broke with recent custom in at least one significant way, according to this report: Pope Benedict XVI baptized 13 babies in the Sistine Chapel during a Sunday Mass celebrated at the altar at the foot of Michelangelo’s “Last Judgment” wall fresco. In a departure from…

A fitting clip for Sunday’s feast of the Baptism of Jesus: Zeffirelli’s beautiful depiction of that event from his landmark television epic, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Which leads me to wonder: whatever happened to Robert Powell??

How can the church appeal to the young? That’s a question on a lot of minds these days, and this piece from the Cleveland Plain Dealer looks at a few answers: There are a lot of differences between the late Sunday afternoon Mass at St. Ambrose Catholic Church and the regular morning Masses throughout the…
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