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And now, a little palate-cleanser… This is one of my favorite chants, and one we hear often this season at my parish: the Regina Caeli. (Our cantor sang it after communion last Sunday, as she will every Sunday during Easter season, and it was like hearing from an old friend.) Queen of Heaven, rejoice, alleluia.…

In what may be a first, anywhere, an outspoken Massachusetts pastor this weekend used his Sunday homily to call for Pope Benedict’s resignation: The Rev. James J. Scahill describes himself as “rather a reclusive person.” He insists he is no rebel. But the parish priest from East Longmeadow was fielding media calls from around the…

I’s impossible to know if The Man in White listens to the White Album, but someone at the Vatican clearly loves the Fab Four: The Vatican has finally made peace with the Beatles, saying their drug use, “dissolute” lives and even the claim that the band was bigger than Jesus are all in the past…

That idea may seem farfetched to some, especially now. But Ross Douthat argues that Benedict may be remembered by history for being a better pope than his celebrated predecessor: The last pope was a great man, but he was also a weak administrator, a poor delegator, and sometimes a dreadful judge of character. The church’s…
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