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 The AP’s Rachel Zoll has discovered something that may not be news to some of us in the blogosphere: Pressure is on to change the Roman Catholic Church in America, but it’s not coming from the usual liberal suspects. A new breed of theological conservatives has taken to blogs and YouTube to say the church…

And now a moment of silence — literally — as a once-beloved icon of the ’80s is laid to rest: Sony will stop selling its Walkman portable tape player in Japan, the land of that once-iconic device’s birth. That’s “weirdest” not in the sense of “I can’t believe Sony won’t make those things anymore,” but…

It’s a little early for Christmas, but some people are indeed making lists — and I was pleasantly surprised to learn that The Bench has just landed on this one: the Top 50 Catholic Blogs. There are some familiar names, and some that were new to me. (A lotta blogging nuns out there! Who knew?)…

It’s been described as the biggest document release ever regarding clerical sexual abuse — but details in the Los Angeles Times don’t add that much to what we already know: After a three-year legal fight, documents were released Sunday detailing the years of sexual abuse by Catholic priests in the San Diego Diocese that led…

That’s the proposal for blogging set forth by my diaconate brother in bloggery, Scott Dodge: Since no blogger is an island, there are other Catholic bloggers with whom I associate and with whom I even collaborate sometimes. I keep abreast of their blogs, which includes posting comments and reading the comments of other readers from…

This new PSA from New York State says it all, charmingly.

After 16 years in Congress (including a failed run for the White House), Kansas Republican Senator Sam Brownback is running for governor of Kansas. The Kansas City Star has a lengthy look at his life, which included converting to Catholicism a few years ago: Brownback’s faith endears him to his conservative base and frightens some…

There’s another convert in the Blair family, according to news reports: It could certainly make family get-togethers interesting. Tony Blair’s sister-in-law Lauren Booth has converted to Islam. The former prime minister is also a religious convert – he became a Roman Catholic after leaving office in 2007. Miss Booth, who is Cherie Blair’s half sister,…

A priest in Massachusetts made an unusual announcement to his parishioners — and it happened under unusual circumstances: Members of St. Lucy Parish received some surprising news in the bulletin this weekend. In his weekly letter to parishioners, the Rev. Richard Burton, pastor at St. Lucy Parish, admitted that he has an alcohol problem. “For…

A tasty treat from the Arizona State Fair. Yum. How long did it take them to think up that name?
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