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The Chaldean Archbishop of Mosul is still in the hands of kidnappers, who have raised their demands: The men who have the fate of Msgr. Paulos Faraj Rahho, Chaldean Archbishop of Mosul in their hands since February 29th last, have raised the ransom and dictated “political conditions” for his release, according to AsiaNews sources in…

 Via Zoe Romanowsky at Inside Catholic, a link to an article written by Emily Stimson on a Stuebenville grad. Zoe’s summary: Eighteen months later, after graduation, Shannon began to pray about her desire to work in a Chinese orphanage. She immediately received — and I mean immediately (ten minutes later) — a phone call from…

Lots of discussion about last week’s rather terse CDF note. First, the note: The document itself is not yet up on the CDF website, but when it arrives (whenever that will be), I’d imagine it would be here.  But here it is at ZENIT. RESPONSES TO QUESTIONS PROPOSED?on the validity of Baptism conferred with the…

Anyone who’s hung around Catholic blogs for the past few years has heard about St. Joan of Arc parish in Minneapolis, a center of, er, creativity, etc.  SJA isn’t alone in that diocese, however. Its companion – and some say more extreme – is St. Stephen’s. St. Stephen’s has made news over the past few…

…and you know what that means for the Hoosier Boyz…

I think today’s Gospel is one of my favorites for many reasons.  The dynamic and exchanges it describes just ring so true, with this man being sent around, buffetted from the puzzled on all sides, trying to figure out what happened to him and who did it. And even he isn’t too sure. The way…

So, what with today being the one day in a 15-day period that Michael was around, we decided to try to do something – a movie. How about it? Of course, this is the Late Winter Dregs, so there is really not a lot out there (There Will Be Blood is gone already…durn!). We settled…

Here’s a neat little story by Julia Duin about the son of Jem Sullivan – named Benedict. Michael’s worked with Jem on the study guide for the Adult Catechism, which she wrote – and she gave us a very nice tour of some high points of religious art in the National Gallery a couple of…

Chaldean Archbishop kidnapped in Mosul From AsiaNews: Mgr Faraj Raho, Chaldean bishop of Mosul, was abducted today after he celebrated the Via Crucis. Three people who were with him were killed. Mgr Rabban al-Qas, bishop of Arbil, told AsiaNews about the event after getting the news directly from Mosul. The kidnappers are said to have…

There’s been a slight burst of discussion this week about why, exactly, those Catholic bishops seem to fall on the “liberal” end of the immigration debate. The consensus is that it’s because the Church is collapsing around them, they’ve given up on native born Americans and the only way to keep it going is to let…
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