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From today’s NYTimes: a mildly interesting travel piece "in search of Graham Greene’s Capri". Mildly interesting because although Greene spent quite a bit of time there, doing the bulk of his writing there from the 40’s on, the place never actually factored into his work as a region of GreeneLand. The WaPo Magazine cover story…

Tell us about it… (Whatever and where ever your place happens to be!) My experience was, as always, filtered through the antsy-ness of two little boys. So..no choir, as per usual, only the very capable cantor and organ. She sang Asperges me, Domine during the sprinkling rite. Sequence was sung out of the missalette –…

Today’s Regina Coeli In his address before the Regina Coeli prayer Benedict XVI gave a short catechesis on the nature of the Church, as is recited in the Credo, to the tens of thousands gathered in St Peters square. Reflecting on today’s feast of Pentecost, which commemorates the descent of the the Holy Spirit on…

At NCR(egister), Tim Drake has a good, comprehensive piece on online videocasting and Catholics. He pretty much covers all the bases, and ends with this: Librarian Janice LaDuke of St. Paul, Minn., understands the power, accessibility and immediacy of such media. She credits the Holy Spirit and Internet resources such as Catholic Answers’ online forums…

Post from Fr. Z on some  Curial moves. Pope-related: ND theology head Professor Lawrence Cunningham’s initial thoughts on Jesus of Nazareth: (1) Ratzinger writes as a theologian in the honorable tradition of the Anselmian ‘faith seeking understanding’ which is to say, he writes as a believer seeking understanding; as a consequence, he writes from the…

Well, one of countless reasons..I am so terribly distractable. (I started working on this post on 5/21, btw.) Because being distracted is just so interesting. It first hit me when I was working on my MA thesis at Vanderbilt – an examination of how 19th and early 20th century American Protestants arguing for a greater…

From today’s WSJ on the Russian Orthodox reunion noted earlier this week: From the time when Russia became communist and atheist after 1917, the Church Abroad had sought to be the free voice of Russian Orthodoxy world-wide. Its independence was authorized by the courageous Patriarch Tikhon in 1920, who resisted Communist domination. But in 1927,…

Maureen Wittman has observations about a confirmation she attended in the Grand Rapids diocese Reader Lance wonders about the Scalabrini Fathers, who are taking his parish under their wing. Anyone? Reader/seminarian Dennis has a bleg: I’m working on a talk for an adult audience about the Church’s relationship with science, and, in particular, the Galileo…

Aid to the Church in Need has stories of interest – about Chavez effectively shutting down the Catholic television station in Venezuala, and a Peruvian bishop’s accusations again mine owners. Pope gives 100,000 Euros to a Ukrainian Catholic university. More on unrest in China related to the one-child policy. Last September legal scholar Teng Biao…

Today, in the NYTimes, David Brooks on Catholics (via Mirror of Justice) He focuses on the "quasi-religious" – those who go to church but are skeptical about what they hear, and particularly Catholics. He traces the beginning of Catholic prosperity mid-century, then we pick it up in the 60’s: Then over the decades, the authority…
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