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Furious and fascinating piece from Books and Culture (a CT brand), a review of two books, including Jim Wallis’. You can get a taste from the opening para: I didn’t vote last November 2nd. Not that friends and colleagues didn’t beg me to perform my "civic duty." To them, Every Vote Counted in an epic…

Cardinal Kaspar to meet with Russian Orthodox The Vatican has deployed an envoy of senior officials to visit Moscow on a four-day trip. The move comes amid increasing tensions between the Russian Orthodox and the Roman Catholic Churches. The visit to Russia will see Cardinal Walter Kasper meet with Metropolitan Kirill, but he will not…

Column from the Rochester paper about two elderly brother priests Bernard, 84, and Tom, 78, both joined the Oblates Order of Mary Immaculate and became Roman Catholic priests — Bernard in 1948, Tom in 1955. "I don’t know how, but even as a child, I wanted to go north," Bernard says. So he accepted an…

The reader who sent this in titled his email: Three days, two stories, one existential chasm, same newspaper. (The paper requires registration, btw) Peter Singer spoke to an audience of 900 (See, that in itself is frightening to me. Singer can get 900 out in Nebraska at a talk sponsored by Unitarians?) Singer’s 50-minute speech,…

Reader James wrote and asked me if I knew the source of a quote from the Pope at Andrew Sullivan’s site – he gets it from a PETA-related site The new Pope has spoken movingly about the exploitation of all beings, particularly of farmed animals. When he was asked about the rights of animals in…

Michael Schiavo – who said he promised his wife he would not keep her alive artificially – also listed Feb. 25, 1990, as the date his wife "Departed this Earth." Patterico’s take

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Well, Grand Rapids finally got someone, at least.. – Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Reno, U.S.A., presented by Bishop Phillip Francis Straling, in accordance with Canon 401, para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law. (§2 A diocesan Bishop who, because of illness or some other grave reason, has…

Peter Chattaway has been attending a retrospective of the films of Pier Paulo Pasolini, and blogs at that link about the Gospel According to St. Matthew and the documentary Pasolini made about searching for locations for that film in the Holy Land (it was, of course, eventually shot in Italy)

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