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Danielle Bean is running one: Not just any raffle, but the very first annual DanielleBean.com charity raffle. I know this: readers of this space are overwhelmingly generous people who care deeply about mothers and their babies. This knowledge has inspired me to put together an online fundraiser for a worthy cause. St. Gianna Maternity Home…

You know, when I was in college, I would finish the semester, go home (across town) and basically sleep for two days. A week with no sleep will have that effect. I guess the first day of summer vacation does that to you…even if it’s kindergarten you’ve just left behind: Of his own free will,…

Thanks to reader Julia for sending along this great article on last week’s ep, an article that focuses on the Raging Bull factor. Discuss!

Pope Benedict’s Wednesday General Audience talks on the Apostles have been collected into a single volume and will be published by Our Sunday Visitor in a couple of months. The pub date at Amazon is 8/17. The manuscript is going to the printer on Monday, though, so it might be sooner. Who knows. The edition…

As I told Lino Rulli on his Sirius show on Monday, I have written 15 and 9/10 books. (I think.) (3 unpublished, but on the way). Now that is basically 16 books. Although perhaps it should be 15 and 86/100 books. I have finished my Mary book for Word Among Us press but for a…

18 years since the massacre at Tiananmen Square. AsiaNews has several stories including what Cardinal Zen of Hong Kong had to say: The bishop of Hong Kong, card. Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, yesterday expressed his desire to see the authorities of continental China “wash away the filth” produced 18 years ago with the Tiananmen massacre. The…

If you’re interested in ongoing canonization causes – this place should interest you very much. One interesting cause I’d never heard about – Paul Murphy, MJ, out of the Diocese of Phoenix. Speaking of saints…6/08 – 6/09 will be the Year of Paul – very apt. Mission, apostleship, encounters with various cultures, theological acuity, focus…

I have time enough to only link to further biographies of  a few of the servants of God and blesseds below, but one that stands out (after Franz Jagerstatter, of course!) is the approval of the miracle for Servant of God Antonio Rosmini, Italian priest and founder of the Institute of Charity and of the…

From the Congregation of the Causes of Saints: MIRACLES – Blessed Alfonsa of the Immaculate Conception (nee: Anna Muttathupandathu), Indian professed sister of the Congregation of Poor Clares of the Third Order of St. Francis (1910-1946). – Blessed Narcisa de Jesus Martillo Moran, Ecuadorian lay woman (1833-1869). – Servant of God Antonio Rosmini, Italian priest…

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