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awelborn
This being Joseph Ratzinger, "vacation" does not mean idleness or leisure in the traditional sense. Unlike John Paul II, Benedict is not a man given to long walks in the mountains as a form of meditative prayer. Instead, he has shipped several cases of books and papers to the nine-room, two-story chalet in Les Combes…
Full of Grace
By
awelborn
Missed this because we were on the road at the time, but last week, Jonathon Yardley had a nice re-assessment of The Habit of Being, the collected letters of Flannery O’Connor (not that his re-assessment was any different than his original view) This very large book (more than 600 pages) appeared in March 1979, a…
Synchronicity
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awelborn
Just as mizznicole from Austin mentions in a comment how helpful the Schoenstatt movement is to her, I post the Magister article that describes Benedict’s two assistants/secretaries (Ingrid Stampa being one, of course) as both being members of this movement. Schoenstatt Movement of Austin
The Popes and Evolution
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awelborn
A summary of this past week’s controversies, from Terry Mattingly
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