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Announced today, Fr. John LeVoir of Minneapolis. He’s a friend of Fr. Z’s: Please pray for Bishop-Elect John LeVoir, presently pastor of St. Michael’s and St. Mary’s in Stillwater, MN (home of the famous bookstore).  Also he was once pastor of St. Augustine’s in South St. Paul, where the Extraordinary Form has been celebrated for…

Things are going to be very busy around here the next couple of weeks. I’ll be around, but probably with only about 1/20th of my brain. I had a little spurt of book orders yesterday. Thank you! If you’d like to order books, please do so – here’s the bookstore. There are some glitches in…

A search term that brought someone to my blog today: the price of abortions in charlotte If anyone ever happens here again looking for that information – please, please, take some time and think. Think. Listen. Lots of people want to help you. Go here instead. (Or here if it’s not Charlotte, North Carolina.) You’re…

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Well, the journeys have begun to World Youth Day..Some links if you’re interested in following. The official WYD site The NCRegister’s Pope2008 blog has transitioned into a pretty full-service WYD2008 blog. Links to lots of articles about the event, the pilgrims and so on. Britain’s Catholic Herald has a good WYD portal going. The Archdiocese…

…maybe. As I mentioned a while back, there is just tons of stuff going on in the Anglican Communion, and we haven’t even got to Lambeth yet. The big news of this week was the decision of the Church of England to approve female bishops, without any formal structured way for those who object to…

This book is going to get a great deal of attention, particularly since it’s published by Brazos – an traditionally evangelical press. One of the more adventurous ones, to be sure, but still…   Here’s Beckwith’s page on the book. Beckwith’s home page (he’ll be a visiting prof at Notre Dame this year) The group…

Green Bay gets a bishop, Cheyenne loses one. Cheyenne Bishop David Ricken was today named bishop of Green Bay. In Italian, here. In addition, it’s Amato to saints (Prefect)  and Ladaria Ferrer to CDF (Secretary) (And, catching up – yesterday, as expected, Baltimore auxiliary Fran Malooly was appointed as the new Bishop of Wilmington. A…

About one o’clock this afternoon, a storm blew through. It came very fast and buffeted us pretty hard for a bit. And of course, inevitably, the power went out. When the rain cleared, the machines in the house remained silent, so once I figured out how to open the garage door without benefit of pushing…

I’m still throwing most of my “read this” links over on the delicious feed, but this was worthy of its own post. Madonna House to return award: Representatives from Madonna House, a Catholic community based in Combermere, Ontario, will make the journey to Ottawa Tuesday morning to return the Order of Canada medal awarded to…

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