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A department store known for its stellar customer service has lived up to its reputation, and taken an offensive t-shirt off the shelves: The department store chain Nordstrom says it has removed a shirt from its shelves that shows a skeleton holding a small child. A Florida customer said the Affliction-brand t-shirt showed the skeleton…

Lo and behold, the blog Roman Catholic Vocations unearthed this terrific address from two years ago, and it’s well worth reading. It’s Pope Benedict’s remarks to the permanent deacons of his own diocese in Rome, from February of 2006. A snip: Dear deacons, I am grateful to you for the services you carry out with…

Archeologists have discovered evidence that at least one ancient culture, hundreds of years before Christ, believed in the separation of the body and the soul. From the New York Times: In a mountainous kingdom in what is now southeastern Turkey, there lived in the eighth century B.C. a royal official, Kuttamuwa, who oversaw the completion…

Grim tidings this morning in the New York Post (does that paper have any other kind of tidings, by the way?) on the state of Catholic schools in New York City: In the Archdiocese of New York – which operates schools in Manhattan, Staten Island, The Bronx and northern suburbs – enrollment at elementary and…
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