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For today. To that end, Donohoe has reworked the scenario of Mass, which has a text based on the liturgy of the Roman Mass with additions by Godspell author Stephen Schwartz. The original story focused on one lead character, the Celebrant of the Mass in question, and his reconciliation with the Catholic Church after a…

Orlando family adopts not one, not two, not three…but nine neglected Russian siblings – “social orphans” The Zorcs stepped forward to adopt the children. Frank Zorc, himself the second oldest of nine children, felt strongly about keeping the siblings together. The couple made three trips to Russia to answer questions from officials and attend a…

Someone below asked about the difference between “servant of God” and “venerable.” Servant of God is first, and relatively general. It is a recognition of holiness that marks the opening of the cause. After this point, the cause proceeds, with all of the extensive documentation required. If the person in question is found to have…

Stop picking on poor John Kerry. A reader sends this link and quote Interesting quote from John Kerry on the question of the supposed “secret oil deal”: “It is fundamentally wrong,” he added. “It’s my prayer that Americans are not being held hostage to a secret deal.” It’s nice to know that there are some…

Had a busy, fragmented day … write stuff, write something else, be on the radio, go to the grocery store, be on the radio again, prepare books for shipping, go to the post office, fix dinner, walk…. etc. But it’s good to get the fragmented stuff done in one day. Sort of the way I…

I’m still trying to digest this one. On one level, I agree with one of the Slate observers who writes I think it might represent the purest distillation so far of the Sopranos ethos: to relentlessly invert the most sacred principle of TV writing, which is “Do Not Discomfit the Viewer.” Making the viewers squirm,…

From a review in National Review (Dead Tree Edition) by Mike Potemra: The Da Vinci Code phenomenon continues to amaze. Its central allegations percolated for years in the pages of quack-history books, attracting little attention. Along came author Dan Brown, who slapped the label “fiction” on them and — presto! — millions of readers started…

From the Phoenix New Times (alternative paper), The Divine Sociopath…aka, Bishop O’Brien The opening is funny in a very sick, tragic way. The rest of it is just sick and tragic. But not surprising.

This morning in the Clementine Hall in the presence of the Holy Father, members of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints and the postulators of the respective causes, 15 new decrees were promulgated. Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, prefect of the Congregation, read a discourse about the lives of the Blesseds and Servants of God.…

An Oyster Bay parish is dissatisfied with its pastor, assigned after a former pastor was removed for abuse accusations. The present pastor was a diocesan official implictated, some say, in reassignment of abusing priests, and they don’t like some of the other decisions he’s made. But the former pastor still hangs around. After months of…
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