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This, from a priest: A propos your recent post about the synod, and the rhetorical question about “License to Preach,” I just wanted to add my $0.02.  The faculty for preaching does not always accompany Holy Orders.  It is a separate faculty, and one not granted to permanent deacons in the Archdiocese of Detroit until…

Sandro Magister today: In the hall of the Vatican where the synod on the Eucharist is being held from October 2-23, above the presider’s table is a large screen. It displays a famous fresco by Raphael, which illustrates for the synod fathers the theme of their meeting: the "Disputation on the Sacrament." At the center…

Why most posts don’t have comments…I am finishing up writing a book, and while I do have time to blog, I don’t have time to monitor comments on contentious issues. So…store it all up for next week!

A lengthy interview PB: The phenomenon that America has not become as secularized as Europe is sometimes referred to as the “American exceptionalism.” Some might say that you owe this to the Protestant Evangelical churches, which are more fundamentalist, rather than Catholicism. If one looks at “red” America I often have the impression that what…
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