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Andrew Sullivan posted this today. I’d never seen it before, though others tell me it’s been making the rounds for a while. I guess I don’t watch enough TV. (Is that a bad thing?). But this Dove commercial should be required viewing for every young girl in America.

From the insanely irreverent people over at Despair.com. Happy Hump Day! And a jolly hat tip (and a friendly smooch where it will do some good…) to the always happy Happy Catholic, Julie.

Continuing his penchant for picking men who have a solid background in education and priestly formation, Benedict has just tapped Green Bay bishop David Zubik to succeed Donald Wuerl (now Archbishop of Washington) as bishop of Pittsburgh: The new bishop is being hailed as a holy man who knows the diocese inside and out. The…

For those who might be in the neighborhood later this week, Your Humble Blogger (that would be me) will be giving a Theology on Tap at a pub in Woodside, Queens. When: Thursday, July 19th, 7:30 PMWhere: Saints & Sinners Pub, Roosevelt Avenue (near 61st St.). The place is small, and noisy, and the #7…

Recent developments out of Rome may have a seismic impact on the Catholic Church — and the world. Or so suggests the Christian Science Monitor in a surprisingly thorough – and critical – piece due to be published Wednesday, but now online: The leader of 1.1 billion Catholics, Pope Benedict XVI, is completing a significant…

That line from “Jesus Christ Superstar” stuck in my head this morning, when I read that the folks at IHOP (or International House of Pancakes, to some of us) are buying the restaurant chain Applebee’s: IHOP Corp. said Monday that it has agreed to buy Applebee’s International Inc. for $1.9 billion in cash, and plans…

A hearty “Deacon’s Bench” welcome to another deacon blogger: Deacon Tom Stonecipher (do you love that name, or what?) who dropped me a line the other day, along with a link to his website and his blog. Deacon Tom, ordained this past February for the Archdiocese of Atlanta, comes to us with a remarkable backstory:…

Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez has never been a big fan of Cardinal Roger Mahony, and this morning he isn’t sending him any valentines: Roger the Dodger has already admitted — albeit without much detail — that he left five priests in the ministry despite complaints of molestation. And my newspaper has counted 11…

Well, here’s a new one. According to the New York Times, (in an op-ed piece by Elizabeth Marquardt, a vice president of the Institute for American Values, and only available via TimeSelect) we need to brace ourselves for the coming debate about group-marriage: On April 30, a state Superior Court panel ruled that a child…

It’s happening in the priesthood — and, evidently, in the sisterhood, too: more and more of those entering religious life, feeling the pull of a vocation, are older. A growing number of the vocations are coming, not from kids in their teens and 20s, but middle aged men and women in their 40s and 50s.…
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