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There was some controversy a few days ago about the dress Miss Mexico was to wear as her national costume in the Miss Universe pageant. From a Catholic news website: The floor-length dress is accented with crosses, scapulars and a sketch of a man facing a firing squad. Designers who helped select the dress from…

The Iona Institute for Religion and Society, an Irish think tank, recently conducted a survey of religious knowledge. The Irish Times reports the results: Only 5 per cent, or one in 20, of 15 to 24-year-olds could quote the first of the 10 Commandments when interviewed for a new survey in Ireland. Almost one-third (32…

Should NBC – and now everyone else – have aired the videos of the Virignia Tech killer? I don’t think so – you may or may not recall that materials related to the Columbine killers was only gradually released, and one thing that has never, to my knowledge, been released, were the videotapes that the…

Some notes from Notre Dame: * On April 27 and 28, Notre Dame will host a conference on Benedict’s encyclical, Deus Caritas Est. Keynote speakers will be Ms. Mary Brosnahan, director of the Coalition for the Homeless in New York City and a 1983 graduate of Notre Dame The Very Reverend Philip Anderson, O.S.B., Prior…

Robert Imbelli highlights editorial reactions Diogenes comments and tends to agree with Robert Levin at NRO, who says: I don’t understand what all the fuss is about. The fact is that Anthony Kennedy makes clear that he is open to a case where the litigant asserts a health exception to partial-birth abortion. He makes this…

From today’s GA. Teresa at PRF reports that all three cakes, after being appreciated, were sent off to charities – the St. Peter’s to the soup kitchen in the Colle Oppio neighborhood that the Pope visited in January. Oh..and do see the caption the American Papist provides.

Vicious attack at a Christian publishing house: Assailants killed four people late Wednesday morning at the offices of Zirve, a Christian publishing house that distributed Bibles in the city of Malatya, Hurriyet online reported. Three of the four victims had their throats cut, one of them Zirve’s owner. The fourth victim died after jumping from…

My friend Meggan writes with a question: Often, in the newspaper or from friends, I hear the word "edict" being thrown around every time the Pope makes a speech or issues a document or letter.  The last time someone said it to me was Sunday when my friend said something about "When the Pope issued…

From a Publishers’ Weekly mailing: The next book from megaselling pastor Joel Osteen—Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life—will have a first printing of three million and a one-day laydown on October 15. According to Free Press publisher Martha Levin, the house upped the ante from two million just this week, in…

Does anything really happen "out of the blue?" From one perspective, it can certainly seem so, as we watch the unexpected hurtle towards us, strike and stun. But in truth, what is unexpected from one perspective was a long time in coming from another. This will be Columbine all over again, it appears, as more…
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