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A look at Jesus
By
awelborn
John Allen’s been reading the Italian edition of Pope Benedict’s book: The English edition of Jesus of Nazareth goes on sale from Doubleday May 15, and an excerpt will be carried in the May 11 edition of Newsweek. (That should make the pope, for at least a week, no longer "invisible," as Newsweek described him…
Chagall and Jesus
By
awelborn
From today’s WSJ: Throughout his life, even when he briefly held a position as Soviet commissar for art in Vitebsk after the Revolution, Chagall was drawn to what we might call a "pre-Christian" Jesus, a Jewish Jesus who would not have understood himself as in any way existing beyond the boundaries of the normative Judaism…
The next synod
By
awelborn
The "Lineamenta " or..well, plan for the next Synod of Bishops has been announced: In the Holy See Press Office at midday today, Archbishop Nikola Eterovic, secretary general of the Synod of Bishops, presented the "Lineamenta" for the Twelfth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, due to be held from October 5 to…
Renewal
By
awelborn
I missed this a few days ago – in the NYTimes, an article about the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal: (which oddly, doesn’t mention Fr. Groeschel, profiled in the Times a couple of months ago) IT was 9 o’clock on a wintry Saturday night, and in the dimly lighted basement of Our Lady of Good…
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