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Hire dumber campaign people. As Michael notes, even Johnny Sac makes an appearance, giving an extra yank on my chain. More substantively (and violating my no-campaign-talk policy, I know) – several GOP candidates spoke to the National Right to Life Committee convention last week.

Two articles from CNS: Convent ransacked: The Gaza compound of the Rosary Sisters was ransacked and looted and sacred objects were destroyed during Palestinian infighting that led to the Hamas faction’s takeover of the Gaza Strip. Msgr. Manuel Musallam, pastor of Holy Family Parish in Gaza, said gunmen used rocket-propelled grenades to break down the…

(I guess this makes up for there being no US appointments today…the traditional day for it.) Fr. Z points us to a column – the first in a series – by Bishop Serratelli of Paterson …on the Sense of the Sacred. Living in our world, we breathe the toxic air that surrounds us.  Even within…

Bishop Tobin of Providence, recently in the limelight because of his Rudy Giuliani column, visitis a columnist. And has some questions for him. (I don’t know anything about the columnist or the reason for the visit – M. Charles Bakst of the Providence Journal – is he their most venerable, well-known columnist?) It’s good stuff,…

About a month ago, Bishop Trautman (Erie), chair of the USCCB Committee on Liturgy, who has been vocal in his criticisms of various liturgical signals and signs coming from Rome, wrote a brief critique of the proposed new translation of the Mass, that was published in America. The piece, available only to subscribers on the…

Adam Minter, author of this month’s Atlantic article on the Church in China (which I’ve not read yet) has a blog post on the forthcoming letter from the Pope to Chinese Catholics. In terms of the content, APcom’s source indicates that the text includes an overview of Vatican-China relations over the last fifty years, and…

Blogger Gashwin Gomes is in NYC, and attended a performance of Our God’s Brother at the Storm Theater: The play, part of a festival dedicated to the works of Karol Wojtyla: … was written approximately ten years later during the Soviet occupation. It tells the story of freedom fighter-turned-artist Adam Chimielowski (better known as Brother…

Julia Duin at the WaTimes, with a lengthy profile of Archbishop Wuerl after a year It’s comprehensive and thorough, looking at everything with his informal gatherings with Catholic members of Congress to his catechetical efforts: According to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, 50 percent of the 475 men who will be ordained…

Go to Vatican Radio for several before, during and after reports on the Pope’s visit. (As well as on the visit of Chrysostomos II on Saturday.)

AsiaNews has the complete text of the Pope’s message to youth posted. (There were about 25,000 present.) Print it out and use it as the kick-off point for your youth group, religious ed class and Catholic school this fall: Saint Francis speaks to all men and women, but I know that he has a special…
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