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Looks like we’ve got ourselves another boy. Yup. November 21 due date. Got all of his parts and, as the ultrasound technician as she tried to get the right angles on those parts, he was thoroughly uncooperative. Another one.

A Godspy interview with Randall Sullivan, author of the Miracle Detective, which, to my great chagrin, I still have not read. Your description of your conversion experience really impressed me. It was clearly a genuine experience of God’s love. Yeah, I think that is the essence for me. I wouldn’t understand the conversion to Christianity…

Fr. Rob has some – her parents have been allowed to see her again, and there is some legal progress.

In the UK Telegraph, questions about what RC bishops – and their bureaucratic reps, more precisely – are up to, exactly Since Hume’s death, a shabby terrace house in a Pimlico square has been slowly sucking the authority out of Archbishop’s House, Westminster, and every other bishop’s office. Number 39 Eccleston Square is the headquarters…

Cardinal Law, two other bishops have testified Cardinal Bernard F. Law and at least two former high-ranking bishops of the Boston Archdiocese have testified before a federal grand jury investigating the case of a Boston-area priest who was transferred to a California Veterans Affairs medical facility despite notations in church records of possible sexual misconduct…

The NYTimes looks at abortion-rights GOP pols and their bishops Both Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Pataki have traditionally embraced pluralism, a wise approach in polyglot New York. The former mayor, who has indicated he may run for office again, just reiterated his church-state views on MSNBC, defining what he called the “accepted wisdom” about dealing…

She doesn’t have time to blog, but she has time to mess with her photo albums, starting a whole new one for Summer 2004. A bit of Chicago, a bit of Detroit so far. Priorities, I tell ya. Actually, I did pretty well today, work-wise. Got halfway done the assigned tasks, which means I should…

Two articles on bishops, politicians and Communion: Archbishop Burke Did I impose a canonical sanction on the Catholic politicians from the Diocese of La Crosse, who had departed from the church’s teaching on the inviolability of human life? I did not. I merely declared that public cooperation in a gravely sinful act, which has always…

Here’s Michael Novak on the Bishops, politicians and Communion, which performs the useful task of highlighting the theological issues for the clueless journos who persist in thinking it’s all about bishops “using communion for political purposes.” In other words, even though such pro-abortion Catholic legislators are OUT OF COMMUNION with the Church in the abortion…

And didn’t hear anything in response it’s because Yahoo! mail “upgraded” and “improved” its services, making sending email, at least for me, impossible. Seems to be straightened out today. BTW, here’s something that does work. Do you know what that is? That stuff called Afterbite, a little stick of what seems to be mostly ammonia…

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