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Where Bishop Olmsted of Phoenix spent part of Easter Sunday: More than 20 young women attended Easter Mass with Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted March 23 in a small chapel at the Black Canyon School, a juvenile corrections facility in north Phoenix. The bishop said he was honored to be with the young women, “who probably…

The collection of the Pope’s Q & A’s with various groups, Questions and Answers is #1 on the Catholic Publishers’ Association Bestseller’s list for April. (pdf)  Oh, and more papal-related randomness – here’s a transcript of a really excellent discussion between John Allen and George Weigel, sponsored by the Pew Forum. If you want good…

Update:  Here it is at the USCCB website.   Update:  Here it is, from YouTube, sans commercials.   Via CNN, here’s the video, complete with Miller Lite commercial.   More from other sites soon, I’m sure. Um…looks like people are getting Viagra commercials, too. Sorry about that…as I said, as soon as it comes to…

I am having to go through myriad machinations in order to be able to sell books again. Don’t ask. But just know that it should be all straightened out in a couple of days. I will be doing a new bookstore site, with a very limited selection. The focus will be on the saints books,…

A few upcoming appearances: Friday morning at 6:40 AM, I’ll be on Gus Lloyd’s Seize the Day program on Sirius’ Catholic Channel. 6:40. Don’t forget. 6:40. Topic will be (I think) Mary and the Christian Life. Next Tuesday at 9:30, I’ll be on Teresa Tomeo’s Catholic Connection program. I think the topic will be the…

Carl Olson dissects today’s USA Today story on the Pope. Helpfully, through his obvious pain. He even offers an alternate reality: Now, consider how this paragraph of “reporting”… He has made clear he wants to continue the strict doctrines of John Paul, who muzzled theologians he thought blurred the lines between Catholicism and politics, opposed…

But hopefully sooner. Update:  There’s an audio link at the end of the Vatican Radio text.  Here is a direct link to the audio. Here’s the text of the Pope’s message to the US in anticipation of his visit – perhaps making the journos job easier as they write story #871 on “What is he…

The great discovery of this past week’s journey was Jason’s Deli – a not-tiny chain, but one that we’d never encountered before. Much to my daughter’s chagrin, we ended up eating at it three – three – times in the course of the week in various parts of the Southeast. I don’t know why she…

of the emailbox and the brain. Remember, this is random – I make no attempt to be systematic in blogging any longer. First – be sure to stop by the Shrine of the Holy Whapping every day this week, as they observe Disturbing Relics Week: Our separated brethren, who usually run away screaming from this…

So, I picked up Richard Sipe’s new book, The Serpent and The Dove: Celibacy in LIterature and Life  (October ’07 – and $49.95, just so you know…) from the “new arrivals” section at the library.  I thought I would be getting a survey of what the title indicates, informed by Sipe’s deep experience in the…
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