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Australian Catholic blogger Shannon Donahoo has several interesting posts: He attended the installation of the new Archbishop of Canberra, has photos and excerpts from the Archbishop’s excellent homily with more here. Comments on the continuing conflict in a parish in Redfern between advocates for an Aboriginal focus and the Neo-Catechumenal priests who’ve been sent to…

Assyrian Christians Turkey showing signs of life: Still, compared to only a few years ago, there is a sense of slow renewal in several of the traditionally Assyrian villages in the area around Midyat. In the village of Kalit, a collection of old stone houses surrounded by green vineyards, Diaspora funds sent from Germany and…

Okay, now, in one of the churches around here, the traditionally ethnic German parish which is magnificent condition and only been minimally "renovated," there are lights. What I mean by that is that the high altar and both side altars – totally Gothic in every way – are outlined and filled in, as it were,…

Fr. Coyne is replaced: Benedict XVI appointed Jesuit Father José Gabriel Funes as the new director of the Vatican Astronomical Observatory, replacing Jesuit Father George Coyne. Father Coyne, a native of Baltimore, Maryland, had been director of the observatory since 1978. The Vatican press office announced the new director on Saturday. Father Funes, 43, is…
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