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George Weigel in Newsweek: He points out that, although the focus of much media coverage will be on the Pope and Islam, that doesn’t cover the primary purpose of the visit: Although the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople does not exercise the jurisdictional and doctrinal authority in world Orthodoxy that the papacy exercises in world Catholicism,…

Pope Benedict, today: Just two days before his trip to Turkey, Benedict XVI today asked an enormous crowd of pilgrims gathered in St Peter’s Square for the Angelus to accompany him “in prayer, so that this pilgrimage may bear all the fruits that God desires”. The voyage of the pope to Ankara, Ephesus and Istanbul…

So, we went to our local Science Museum (which I have never, I’m sorry to say, been a fan of. God bless them for their efforts, but the great setting (an old power plant) just isn’t served well by the bulk of the exhibits, most of which are very well-worn by enthusiastic users and not…

In the London Times, Peter Ackroyd, in the first of a 2-part series, recounts a visit to Russia. Much to ponder, arresting images, but since religion is our beat, we’ll focus: IT [Tver] WAS A stopping place for Catherine the Great. So perhaps we can pause here, too. Among a little settlement of wooden houses…
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