Bored? Glancing at the news, I come to this conclusion: it’s a Monday in late August and it seems like the world is either on vacation or just insane. (That doesn’t include people with names like Gosselin, or Jackson, who seem now to occupy their own corner of the news universe.) Thank goodness, for The…

Most of us remember her as Ike Godsy’s prim spouse up on Walton’s Mountain. But the actress Ronnie Claire Edwards is also something of a character herself, and she recently bought a Dallas Catholic Church and converted it into a living space. From the Dallas Morning News: “This was never intended as a habitat –…

In the middle of marking two feasts of the Blessed Mother — the Assumption and the Queenship of Mary — Zenit has published a report on one of the great unsolved mysteries of the Virgin: Juan Diego’s tilma. Take a look: A physicist who has spent years researching the tilma bearing the image of Our…

One of the leading critics of the alleged apparitions has given an interview that has appeared in several Serbian newspapers. In it, he puts the Medjugorge phenomenon in a cultural and political context — and describes the apparently differing opinions of Pope Benedict and Pope John Paul. You can read more and decide for yourself.

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