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A reader passed this on – I wish I could read Spanish at more than a "well, that looks like the English word…" level, because it looks interesting: Constructed in the 6th century (I think) by one of the kings of the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo – the archaeological remains of the last Arian church.

Damian Thompson is the editor of the Catholic Herald, a British Catholic paper we refer to here often. Today, he continues his fulminating against the bishops’ offices: Real anger is building up in the parishes over the bishops’ behaviour, which led to the document – Sacramentum Caritatis – a historic, 60-page statement on the Eucharist…

Members of the Catholic Illustrator’s Guild post their wonderful work here. (book publishers and editors…bookmark it!) Via NLM.

…to Fr. Morris of FoxNews. He’s been having an email conversation, and shares his reflections and continuing concerns.

Some of us need to get out more. Get out of the blog rut…see what else is out there! Some random sampling from the Catholic Blog Listing: Holy Cards for Your Inspiration: a blogger posts from her vintage holy card collection. Hesperia is a Christendom student on a Rome semester Carmelitina – musings from a…

Things are warming up in Rome (as they are everywhere…70+ here the past couple of days) – the General Audience was outdoors, and the Pope continued his catechesis on great figures of the early Church, taking Ignatius of Antioch this time. Theresa at PRF has a translation of the whole talk up (scroll down). After…

Mike Aquilina looks at part of the AE that resonates with his Patristics heart: Like everything Benedict does, it’s steeped in the doctrine of the Fathers. He invokes Ignatius, Polycarp, Irenaeus, Cyprian, Jerome, Augustine, and Chrysostom, as well as the martyrs of Abitina. MIke focuses on the aspects of the document that touch on mystagogical…

As rumored for a week or so, today the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a notification in the case of Fr. Jon Sobrino, S.J.. The Notification: 1. After a preliminary examination of the books Jesucristo liberador. Lectura histórico-teológica de Jesús de Nazaret (Jesus the Liberator) and La fe en Jesucristo. Ensayo desde…

Today I had the treat of lunching with Barbara Nicolosi, who was in the area speaking at Huntington University, a small Christian liberal arts college.  Greg Erlandson of OSV joined us (OSV is located in Huntington – Michael is out of town, dashing between southern Indiana and southern Kansas for various business-related reasons). It was…

Drew at Holy Whapping has interesting thoughts: The Exhortation plays an important role in this movement, then, by codifying Ratzinger’s ideas on liturgy into the written magisterium of the Church. He gave the reform of the reform much of its steam by expressing these ideas in popular books; it can only continue to pick up…
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