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What Books People who Read Amy’s Open Book blog and Michael’s Annunciation blog are buying this month. March 2007 (3/3/07) 1. A Pocket Guide to the Meaning of Life (A Pocket Guide to) 2. The Roman Catholic Church: An Illustrated History 3. Cities of God: The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Movement…

This via Lucy at City of Steeples: The charity for February, the month of the Holy Family, was Children Waiting Everywhere. It is a charity extremely close to my heart, because it is run by my godmother, in conjunction with the Congregation of Holy Cross, who founded Notre Dame. This is a charity whose credibility…

Did anyone hear the sound of a small bomb being dropped? Huh. Must have been my imagination. David Gushee, at Christianity Today: I was getting ready to preach. As the worship leader was finishing the music set, he offered some unscripted theological reflections. He said something like: "The only thing required of us is to…

The Good Friday collection in Catholic churches around the world is taken to benefit the Church in the Holy Land. Cardinal Ignace Moussa I Daoud, prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches, has released his annual letter regarding the collection: As is my annual practice, and by virtue of Papal directive, I now turn to…

Next Tuesday, the Apostolic Exhortation on the Synod on the Eucharist, called "Sacrament of Love" will be released. Let the fevered speculation begin! (Or, you know, prayer.)

Dallas and Lake Charles: (This is the news on the Vatican website, only in Italian for now) Dallas, your new bishop is Bishop Kevin J. Farrell, auxiliary bishop of Washington, D.C., Here’s his info Born in Ireland: He entered the novitiate of the Legionnaires of Christ in 1966 and received an M.A. in Philosophy and…

A couple of weeks ago, I struggled through a probably garbled post on My Theory of Everything, which suggests (unoriginally) that since everything will eventually go haywire – meaning that the vast majority of us will be sorely tempted to take The Easy Way Out down the Path of Least Resistance to the Land of…

My friend from Phoenix writes with this, inviting your prayers: A Planned Parenthood Clinic caught on fire shortly after our blessed Bishop’s Christmas Eve Rosary at the site.  The fire was not arson. The clinic staff shared the facts of the fire with investigators as is standard when this type of thing occurs.  The fire…

One more good link from the Archaeological Institue of America: The identification of the Talpiyot tomb as the tomb of Jesus and his family is based on a string of problematic and unsubstantiated claims, including adding an otherwise unattested Matthew (Matya) to the family of Jesus; identifying an otherwise unknown son of Jesus named Judah;…

Today, Sandro Magister points out two recent commentaries reflecting on the NeoCatechumenal Way – a lay movement that is controversial for various reasons, most concretely their liturgies. The NCW has been given until June to re-consider and reshape certain problematic aspects of their liturgies. Magister (who has always been critical of NCW): In December of…
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