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Rumors on this have popped up over the past few years, but here’s confirmation: Scorcese is, indeed, going to film an adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s novel, Silence (from an interview with his editor) A movie called ‘Silence’, which is based on a great Japanese novel about 16th century Portuguese missionaries in Japan. It’s something very…

Excerpts from today’s Synod speeches are here. Very general. Also in today’s VISEN, a news item about this Sunday’s beatification: At 9.30 a.m. on Sunday, October 9, Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins C.M.F., prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, will preside at a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica during which Cardinal Clemens August…

Bishop visits Kentucky There are no paved roads, running water or electricity in Bishop Nicolas Djomo’s isolated diocese in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Amid dense equatorial forests and extreme poverty, schools and doctors are rare. Malaria and dehydration regularly kill children. War has filled orphanages. Life expectancy for men is about 46 years.…

For those of you who are still catching up with the Philadelphia Grand Jury report, here’s a summary from the National Catholic Reporter (And here’s the detailed breakdown of the report from Bishop Accountability) Here’s the press release on the agenda for the November bishops’ meeting: The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) will…
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