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Today, we remember Blessed  Fr. Francis Xavier Seelos, C.Ss.R, born in Bavaria, but associated with the United States – he joined the Redemptorists especially to minister to immigrants in this country. Blessed Francis attended seminary and was ordained in Baltimore. He ministered in Maryland, Pittsburgh and Detroit – and was in fact proposed as Bishop…

Ed Peters has an interesting ongoing list of known excommunications of various types over the past 20 years or so

The Supreme Court reject the appeal on the constitutionality of that "Be a Muslim for a Month" public middle school unit. The suit challenged the content of a seventh-grade history course at Excelsior Middle School in Byron in the fall of 2001. The teacher, using an instructional guide, told students they would adopt roles as…

Sandro Magister reprints commentaries on the Regensburg lecture from two Muslim scholars, one supportive of Benedict’s point, and the other not so. Nayed reproves Benedict XVI for, among other things, trusting experts on Islam who are “hostile” toward this religion. And among these he cites Jesuit fathers Christian Troll and Samir Khalil Samir, whom the…
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