Is another counter-Reformation brewing? Over at the Wall Street Journal, author David Gibson is wondering about that. He has been pondering the meaning and potential impact of the recent Vatican synod on the bible: The synod’s 55 final recommendations to the pope (he will likely approve most of them in a document of his own…

Over at America, they have a very good dissection of my favorite TV series “Mad Men,” and I discovered that a lot of the best clips from the show are available on YouTube. The one below is, to my mind, a television classic, wherein the protagonist, the enigmatic Don Draper, has been assigned to come…

From our Hollywood Desk, a.k.a. Starpulse, a little tidbit about a high profile Catholic in Tinsletown: “Entourage” has become a curse for Mark Wahlberg on Sundays – because people approach him in church with story lines and requests to be on the hit show. Wahlberg, who is the producer of the series – which is…

The election seems to have frayed everybody’s nerves — and this incident, first reported in a California paper, bears that out: A Fairfield woman whose car was adorned with celebratory signs for President-elect Barack Obama is furious that a priest singled her out during Sunday morning Mass and ordered her to leave. Elizabeth Caster admits…

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