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First an encyclical, now the copy of the USCCB liturgical music document, Sing to the Lord. (pdf) Via NLM

..in Encyclical-Land to bring you this. I was (and still am) going to do a Golden Compass post next week (the movie is released in the US on 12/7), but I couldn’t wait on this. Using the positive review of the film that has come to us from the USCCB film office, a review penned…

16. How could the idea have developed that Jesus’s message is narrowly individualistic and aimed only at each person singly? How did we arrive at this interpretation of the “salvation of the soul” as a flight from responsibility for the whole, and how did we come to conceive the Christian project as a selfish search…

The first concrete, personal example that Benedict uses to illustrate the reality of hope: (Note: I am breaking this up into paragraphs which aren’t in the Vatican version. It just makes it easier to read.) Yet at this point a question arises: in what does this hope consist which, as hope, is “redemption”? The essence…

Got your new encyclical right here.. (Zenit has it up as well, including a pdf version, which might be helpful if you want to print it out. Because you have to take read it on the run today. Because you have to condense it by…oh, don’t remind me.) John Allen on the press conference introducing…

..because nothing says Advent like… The Bratz. I just want to know what’s behind the little doors. I just can’t imagine…

I had never heard of Ephrem the Syrian until a few years ago when I started writing about prayer, and then Mary. Then he was everywhere – in fact, the source of some of the very best, wisest and most beautifully expressed thoughts on spirituality around – especially his hymns. Today, the Pope took up…

Thanks to a commentor for pointing out that the diocese has issued a statement: A STATEMENT FROM  THE DIOCESE OF PHOENIX Re: The Praise and Worship Service – Dale Fushek and Mark Dippre November 27, 2007 On Thanksgiving Day, November 22, 2007, Dale Fushek, a priest of the Diocese of Phoenix on administrative leave, conducted…

Looking for a cause for your youth group, class or..well…family? The Christian Foundation for Children and Aging is one of the more well-regarded sponsorship organizations out there, and one of the newer way  of helping those in need around the world is youth-focused. Walk With the Poor links young people who need financial assistance in…

of Catholic publications with blogs or blog-like features. America Magazine’s blog (Others include Commonweal, the web page/blog of what was formerly the print magazine Crisis – Inside Catholic, and First Things.) Religion News Service also has a blog.
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