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Four canonizations on Sunday  in Rome. Biographies of the Blesseds: Blessed George Preca from Malta, founder of the Society of Christian Doctrine, a lay group dedicated to catechesis and evangelization: The main priority of the Society is catechetical work in the parishes. Every evening all the Society’s Centres are open for the catechetical formation of…

Here I go again…this week’s In Our Time, from BBC radio, focused on William of Ockham, and was quite a good introduction. They pretty much stayed with Ockham himself – that was enough – without going too much into broader implications and influence, except for a bit on the political end. But as always, very…

On the evening of May 31, Pope Benedict led an end-of-May rosary procession through the Vatican gardens. He began the evening meeting with Vatican employees: Pope Benedict XVI spent a breezy spring evening with the Vatican’s civil servants — gardeners and judges included — thanking them for their work, praying with them and encouraging them…

See this? The "Under the Lights" program focusing on the Wake Forest football program? See it? My oldest produced and edited it – he didn’t do the actual shots, but beyond that, the whole program is basically his work. And it’s apparently being sent around the network as an example of really excellent work. No…

We watched it a few weeks ago, and Michael Scaperlanda’s post on the film reminded me of something I meant to remark on at the time, but didn’t. Michael speaks of the length of the film, and what struck me just as much, if not more was the length of the shots. The camera lingers…

So, we stopped in at Barnes and Noble this evening, and as per usual, I went to check over the "religion" section in the children’s department to see if they had my saints’ books. Why do I bother? No one ever does. But that’s not the point. The point is that I couldn’t find the…

Archbishop Miller moves: Rome’s point man on Catholic higher education has been named the new coadjutor archbishop of Vancouver, positioning him eventually to lead one of North America’s most cosmopolitan dioceses and the third-largest in Canada, after Montreal and Toronto. Archbishop Michael Miller, who has served as Secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education in…

Convent sacked and occupied Terrorists, believed to be Shiites, yesterday occupied the Convent belonging to the Chaldean Sisters of the Scared (sic – obviously should be Sacred) Heart in Baghdad.  Sources in the capital in contact with the nuns denounced the event to AsiaNews. The Angel Raphael convent lies in the Mikanik area of the…

Inside the Vatican interviews Archbishop Pius Ncube of Zimbabwe ITV: Were you appointed archbishop of Bulawayo by John Paul II? ARCHBISHOP: Yes. I was ordained a priest at the age of 27 in 1973. It took quite a long training after secondary school to be a priest – 7 years, 3 years of philosophy and…

More problems in Pakistan A Pakistani district court yesterday condemned to death Younis Masih, a Christian accused of blasphemy.  The judges also condemned to man to pay a fine amounting to 100 thousand Rupees. Defence lawyers denounce a lack of evidence and accuse police of negligence for not having carried out a thorough investigation into…
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