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The man who made a name for himself by playing Christ is about to become a number. This, from Variety: AMC and ITV will remake Patrick McGoohan’s cult TV show “The Prisoner” as a six-part mini with Ian McKellen as Number Two and Jim Caviezel as Number Six. The show, skedded to air in 2009,…

It’s raining deacons. Fr. Bede Cisco, Director of Diaconate Formation for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, kindly alerted me to a wonderful spread on the recent history-making ordination in the Criterion, the archdiocesan newspaper. Do give it a look. And visit the photo gallery, as well. Some choice snaps, by Sean Gallagher and Mary Ann Wyand,…

A few days ago, one of the key speakers at Quebec’s Eucharistic Congress was a man whom many consider a living saint, Jean Vanier, founder of the L’Arche community for the disabled. This morning’s Washington Post On Faith section has an appreciation of Vanier and his work by Timothy Shriver: “How’s your mum?” That’s what…

I can’t remember ever hearing of anything like this before: an audacious break-in at an archbishop’s residence in Minnesota that resulted in the theft of some truly priceless objects: An overnight burglary at the St. Paul residence of new Archbishop John Nienstedt netted the thief or thieves the gem- and precious-metal-laden rings and crosses worn…
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