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The news out of London the other day was pretty shocking, and I’m surprised it didn’t get more play: Plans to allow British scientists to create human-animal embryos are expected to be approved tomorrow by the government’s fertility regulator. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority published its long-awaited public consultation on the controversial research yesterday,…

Some now aren’t so sure. Carbon dating is casting doubts on just how old this famous robe might be: Friars from two churches of the Franciscan order founded by the saint asked a laboratory specializing in dating artwork to examine two simple brown tunics said to have been worn by the champion of the poor,…

The timing of this, I’m sure, isn’t coincidental, but news has trickled out from AFP about the woman who received the first miracle attributed to the intercession of Mother Teresa — and the news isn’t good: A woman whose claimed miracle cure from cancer led to Mother Teresa being thrust towards sainthood has accused Catholic…

Just when you thought ordination season was over…another crop of deacons has popped up. Welcome! This fresh batch of permanent deacons comes to us from the Diocese of Joliet, in Illinois. The Catholic Explorer has the write up: Twenty-five men of faith exited the Cathedral of St. Raymond in Joliet Aug. 25 as newly ordained…

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After crinkling my nose and rolling my eyes over the McGreevey story, I was heartened to come across this sunny bit of news from the Sunshine State — one parish that has produced five, yes five, vocations: Beth Burwell wrestled with the question of whether she could forego having a husband or children. The answer…

From the “Too Weird To Ignore File,” the latest on “Gay American” and former New Jersey governor (and one time Catholic altar boy) Jim McGreevey: Former Gov. James E. McGreevey has started the process to become a priest in his newly adopted Episcopal faith and has been accepted into a three-year seminary program starting this…

Several days ago, a reader dropped me an e-mail about an upcoming art exhibit in Louisville, Kentucky. This looks like something truly special: an exhibit of the work of Frederick Hart, whose contributions to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the National Cathedral in Washington are nothing less than stunning. (That’s part of his famous “Ex…

Michael Gerson is a former Bush speechwriter responsible for some of the most elegant and eloquent words spoken after 9/11, including the still-potent speech the president delivered at the National Cathedral on 9/14. Gerson is now a columnist for the Washington Post. And he’s posted today a thoughtful and worth-reading column on Mother Teresa, which…

This beautiful video sums up Mother Teresa better than anything else I’ve seen, and does it with just one word: grace. Music by U2.
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