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Also from John Thavis at CNS – and props to him on this one. It’s thorough. (And sourced) Various views on the apparitions, the attitudes of different elements of the hierarchy, from local bishops to the Vatican to the Franciscans who dominate the scene there. I found this quote, from a scholar who doubts the…

Remember the "Vatican condemns everything" document on sexuality and marriage, announced by Cardinal Trujillo of the Pontifical Council for the Family a couple of weeks ago? People (including me) have been wondering what happened to it, for it has become a phantom document – unpublished in any language on the Vatican website, and I’ve not…

He’s visiting this fall,and Magister looks at some recent hints of the approach: But on that trip, which includes stops in Ankara and Ephesus in addition to Istanbul, Benedict XVI will also encounter Islam, and Turkish Islam in particular. And the pope made statements of significant interest on this topic in recent days. He made…

John Allen’s Word from Rome. He begins by discussing Catholicism in the Global South, with this rather useful analogy: In other words, the central challenge for world Catholicism at the moment is not decline, but growth, and making sense of the new interactions between faith and culture this growth is generating. "Rearranging deck chairs on…
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