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Lee Podles draws attention to a French Catholic magazine’s publication of a 2001 letter Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos wrote to Pierre Pican, a French bishop who had just been sentenced to jail for not having reported a pedophile priest to civil authorities. At the time the cardinal was prefect for the Congregation for the Clergy…

What’s this?: The mouth of Hell? No, it’s an overhead radar image of the Icelandic volcano now ruining air travel in Europe. As blogger Stein Sigurddson writes of this anthropomorphic image, “The mind does some great interpolative associative processing ;-)” Be that as it may, a friend asked me at lunch today if it seemed…

David Rieff was in Dublin for the Easter 1916 commemoration, and listened to a military chaplain speak at the official ceremony, delivering what David calls a “brave homily” addressing the ethical collapse of the nation during its recent economic boom, now a bust. The monsignor’s prophetic address to the Irish nation got David to thinking.…

Mrs. Dreher enlists the little ones in helping clean the apartment, e-mailing: I just stuck old socks on their hands, gave them Comet, and turned them loose in the shower. So far, so good.
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