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I’m not a big fan of Joel Osteen — I once told someone “He’s all crown and no cross” — and there’s a lot I find accurate and troubling in this dissection of the “Prosperity Gospel” from Slate. But I especially appreciate the author’s final words: Who can blame people for flocking to Joel Osteen…

Exhibit A in how not to practice the New Evangelization.

Well, here’s another of those “I-Had-No-Idea” moments. I had no idea that President Obama’s press secretary, Robert Gibbs, is Catholic. From U.S. News & World Report: White House press secretary Robert Gibbs is not predisposed to showing his personal side. So I was surprised to hear him invoking his Roman Catholicism in today’s White House…

From the Marian Oddities Desk, a report that some of the faithful in Ireland are seeing the Blessed Mother in a tree stump: Thousands of Irish Catholics have flocked this week to a County Limerick church to pray at the stump of a recently cut willow that many observers say, has the silhouette of the…
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