Today is the memorial of this saint, born and more well-known as Edith Stein, philosopher, Jewish convert to Catholicism, Carmelite nun, killed at Auschwitz. There is an abundance of material available on the Web related to St. Teresa Benedicta, of course. A few links: A relatively brief introduction to her life from Crisis Magazine: Another…

Over at Get Religion, Mollie takes on the Edward Colimore piece from the Philadelphia Inquirer on the liturgy presided over by on of the Pittsburgh 12: But sometimes a story is so poorly written and reported that one look at the headline brings forth waves of despair and exasperation. Such was the case with puff…

The General Audience today was in Rome, indoors in the Paul VI Hall. Benedict spoke on John the Evangelist (continuing his catechesis on the 12 Apostles), and began with a brief explanation of the rationale behind his first encyclical. Benedict XVI arrived from his summer residence of Castel Gandolfo by helicopter. In Paul VI Hall,…

…don’t read this book. Well, go ahead, but be ready, in the last third, for lots of sinews, blood and guts, as former New Yorker fiction editor Bill Buford heads to Tuscany to apprentice with the Dante-quoting, raw-meat loving butcher of the subtitle, Dario Cecchini. And before that, whether you’re carnivore, herbivore or omnivore, be…

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