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Today was the massive gathering of representatives of the "new movements," for a Vigil of Pentecost at St. Peter’s with the Pope. There were an estimated 350,000 gathered (35-45,000 has been the normal number for the Wednesday audeinces for Benedict, just by way of comparison), and the crowd stretched all the way down to the…

Hah. You know that you can find photos from every Papal event on the Vatican website, and Michael finally went and looked for photos from the General Audience which we attended. And sure enough, there he is "with" the Pope! (No, we’re not in it – we were actually, originally about 5 rows back, but…

Bishop Brown agrees, in general, to meet with the dissatisfied parishioners of St. Mary’s-by-the-Sea. Bishop Tod Brown unexpectedly celebrated the Saturday evening vigil Mass at St. Mary’s by the Sea parish in Huntington Beach, California, on Saturday, June 3, 2006. Mary Tripoli, a member of Restore the Sacred (who was dismissed from the parish council…

Gashwin Gomes (blogging from India for the summer) has thoughts and more links related to Christianity, the Global South and Philip Jenkins.
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