Not the best day evah  – oh, certainly not the worst, by any stretch of the imagination – just a few momentary bumps in the road. Three, to be precise, each starting with “Dear [Amy’s agent]” . But I’m telling you, nothing cheered me up more than this. I dare you not to laugh. I’m all for…

This caught my eye, over at Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex: In Transylvania and throughout Romania, Catholics who lost more than 2,000 churches to the Russian Orthodox church after the Second World War when the Russians banned Catholicism now want their churches back.  In most cases, the Orthodox church had said no, so Catholics have had to set up chapels in local villages,…

On Saturday, a new bishop for Beijing will be ordained, and the burning question is – has the selection of Msgr. Joseph Li Shan, been approved by Rome? There’s been no public statement, and Adam Minter of Shanghai Scrap is taking that as a “yes.” But I think the most important evidence in regard to…

Today, the cause for the beatification of Cardinal Van Thuan was opened. This morning the Pope received officials and members of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace for the fifth anniversary of the death of the Vietnamese Cardinal Francois-Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan, whose beatification cause has recently been opened. Also present at the audience were…

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