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Nothing on the Vatican website yet, but the secular news media is reporting: Pope Benedict XVI’s personal preacher asked the pontiff Friday to declare a day of fasting and penance to publicly declare repentance and express solidarity with the victims of clerical sex abuse. In a strongly worded lecture, he denounced the "abominations" committed inside…

A simple story from the Tablet, but strangely moving and not-so-strangely hopeful – about the resurgence of the Catholic Church in Suffolk – for the usual reasons, who come from all over. And they were not alone. Every Sunday 14 or 15 Keralan (Kerala – an Indian state) families attend Mass at Our Lady and…

A writer reflects on her 2005 visit, in the Tablet: The benefit of staying in Bethlehem is being able to choose the time (from 5 a.m. to nightfall) to meditate and pray at the Church of the Nativity, to linger over coffee or a glass of wine in Manger Square and to spend unhurried hours…

Congratulations to Fr. Dwight Longenecker, ordained yesterday – do read his blog posts that relate his journey. The Greenville paper covered it – barely.
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