Spe Salvi version 2.1 has gone off and away, so we’ll bide our time until more revision notes come in.
I’ll fill this post with bloggage, but only because I want to clean out my email box without guilt.
Dinesh D’Souza debated Daniel Dennett at Tufts on Friday night and reports here.
An agnostic who attended reports here. Interesting.
Marcel LeJeune has collected some of the best blog postings on Advent from around the blogosphere. Also check out Marcel’s “Catholic Evangelist” site – he is ready and willing to come speak to your parish or group!
The New York Times knows it all:
As originally performed in December 2004, composer Andrew Miller’s Christmas cantata he Birth of Christ dramatizes in choral form the story of the immaculate conception and the manger birth of Jesus as relayed in the Christian gospels.
Thanks to Clare K for sending along this link to a nice site on St. Francis Xavier.
Oh, and adding to the doc drop of last week – I’ll toss in this pastoral letter from Bishop Slattery of Tulsa on immigration, specifically on one piece of proposed legislation in the Oklahoma House. (pdf). What most interested me were the first two and a half pages in which Bishop Slattery laid out the grounds of his authority to teach on this matter. I can’t remember ever reading such a specific, explicit statement like that in an episcopal pastoral letter in the recent past. Not that I’ve read them all, of course.