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From the WSJ, a profile of a missionary priest in Bangladesh: A half-century ago, the Rev. Eugene Homrich set up a Catholic mission among a tiny pagan tribe clinging to a tropical forest. He is still here. As a result, perhaps, so are the Garos, a predominantly farming people whose sari-clad women own the family…

Consequences for Amnesty International’s move to abortion support: Abortion has driven a wedge between the Catholic Church and an organization that began as an ally. Amnesty International (AI) was founded in 1961 by Peter Benenson, a British convert to Catholicism. But today, as a result of Amnesty International’s recent decision to promote abortion rights, Church…

Video from 1989- Walker Percy’s speech (with a rather lengthy intro) on being the recipient of the Laetare Medal. Via Matthew Lickona – I believe his brother Mark put it up on YouTube.

Or…How They Sell All Those Books: Thomas Nelson has ordered a 1 million-copy first printing for 3:16: The Numbers of Hope by Max Lucado—the largest first printing in the company’s history, according to David Moberg, senior v-p and group publisher for Practical Living/Spiritual Growth/Christian Thought. The book’s title refers to the New Testament passage John…

Last week, Mark D. Roberts, a Presbyterian pastor and writer had a lengthy debate with Christopher HItchens on the Hugh Hewitt radio show. Roberts has helpfully summarized the many ways in which Hitchens’ book either distorts or simply gets the facts wrong about Scripture and Christian history. When I read through the first part of…

One of our frequent commentors, Irenaeus – has a blog. I’m fairly sure he wrote to me about it a while back, but it got lost in the mess that is my email box. So, apologies for that, Irenaeus. Catholidoxies is the blog of an evangelical Protestant contemplating Roman Catholicism and Orthodoxy. Go read –…

Today during the General Audience, the Pope took as his subject Eusebius of Caesarea, the 3rd-4th century church historian. Full text translation here – (scroll down) He begins with a bit of biography, then an explanation of structure and aim of the Church History . Then: The citation which we just made from the first…

Today is the feast of St. Anthony of Padua, the great Franciscan preacher, and patron of those seeking that which is lost. Chiara has several prayers posted Miki has a holy card and a short reflection A news video (the link is evident on the page) of a celebration of St. Anthony from last Sunday…

Sandro Magister on Rabbi Jacob Neusner, whose work Pope Benedict repeatedly cites in JON, reprinting Neusner’s article from the Jerusalem Post from late May: In “Jesus of Nazareth,” the pope explains why this book made such a positive impression on him. In it, “the author takes his place among the crowds of Jesus‘ disciples on…
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