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…rest in peace. The founder of Pax Christi passed away yesterday. Rocco has details.

Chaldean Patriarch and new Cardinal Emmanuel III Delly celebrated Mass yesterday in Baghdad: Delly presided over other services this week in Baghdad and the northern Kurdish city of Irbil, spreading his message of unity and forgiveness among Iraq’s Christians. “We are of one family, everyone should work for the progress of this country,” he said…

After weeks and months of debate meets, other people going off to NFL games and such, Katie and I finally found a day to head south to catch a show – …if by “south” you mean “Cincinnati” – but it is south! And it was warmer! A shaky start after emerging from 9:15 Mass at…

Via PRF: One week after its release, Pope Benedict’s second encyclical Spe salvi has already sold more than one million copies, according to the Vatican publishing house. Besides the Italian edition, the encyclical was also published in English, Spanish, French, German and Polish. The booklet is sold at 2 euros for the Italian edition, and…

From CNA: According to the Vatican sources, the document, which could be made public this Advent, “can be regarded as an application of the principles of the document “Dominus Iesus” to the way evangelization is transmitted and catechesis is taught within the Catholic Church.” In “Dominus Iesus” the CDF, then under the leadership of Cardinal…

A vocabulary quiz through which you donate rice: (Via Melanie Bettinelli)

You all make me laugh, sharing True Confessions of Liturgically Slacker Parents. I honestly do appreciate all those lovely blogs I made fun of – they’re pretty and inspiring and the parents who write them do a far, far better thing than I ever could. And would all cheerfully admit the chaos that lies behind…

Cindy Wooden of CNS blogs on the Pope’s Advent wreath – with red candles, in the German style. He met with representatives of the Baptist World Alliance: This meeting in Rome is the second round of ongoing discussions that Members of the Baptist World Alliance are holding with the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.…

The blogger at Revolution 21 writes: Today, in all likelihood, is the darkest day in the 153-year history of Omaha. What happened at Westroads Mall was horrific almost beyond description.   Please pray for my city, a great place to live that never saw this coming — at Christmastime, no less. Then again, who the…
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