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Heh. Send it to Bishop D’Arcy. In Dan Brown’s best-selling thriller, “The Da Vinci Code,” the fearless and cerebral Harvard professor Robert Langdon uses his knowledge of ancient religious symbols in a quest for the Holy Grail. His search is often interrupted by questions from his trusted partner, the intrepid and beautiful French cryptologist Sophie…

Reassuring Patients: The pope’s remarks came during a Vatican (news – web sites) symposium on caring for people who are incapacitated. They are significant but do not carry the weight of an encyclical — the Vatican’s most authoritative level of teaching, reserved for matters of extreme importance to the church. “We have to figure out…

Impressive numbers. A campaign to ban a controversial abortion procedure turned in 460,034 petition signatures to state elections officials Thursday, nearly 200,000 more than needed to adopt the ban without the approval of Gov. Jennifer Granholm. Although widely acknowledged as one of the most successful petition drives in recent Michigan history, enactment of the ban…

No one’s saying what was said, but that doesn’t stop us from opining John Kerry yesterday met with Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, archbishop of Washington, D.C. Contrary to the drift of media reports, it was Kerry, not the cardinal, who initiated the meeting. “The senator had asked to meet with the cardinal,” explained archdiocesan spokeswoman Susan…

A new book fromFr. Benedict Groeschel, coming in a few weeks.

….wondering why it has happened yet. When a tribunal of Hawai’i Roman Catholics wrapped up its investigation into a purported miracle attributed to Father Damien a year ago, there was optimism it would be enough to propel the Moloka’i legend into the legion of saints. In fact, with strong medical evidence supporting the case, there…

By the Reformed guy who runs The Internet Monk. Funny and true: So I’ve had a rough few months on the internet, and the other day I looked at my computer and my bookshelves (and my brain, which I keep in a jar here on the table) and uttered these fateful words: “I hate theology.”…

I just opened this email…it was written an hour or so ago, and I guess the problem remains. Let us know if it’s fixed, Mark! Help! My blog has stopped posting new items and I don’t know why. Any techno-geeks out there who can assist would be greatly appreciated. Email me at chez.ami@verizon.net Maybe it’s…

Here The right to life comes first. It precedes and undergirds every other social issue or group of issues. This is why Blessed John XXIII listed it as the first human right in his great encyclical on world peace, Pacem in Terris. And as the U.S. bishops stressed in their 1998 pastoral letter Living the…

….aka The Catholic University While an open marketplace of ideas is ideal for a secular university, such a marketplace is detrimental to a traditional Catholic university. From the first inception of Catholic education, the goals have been twofold — to educate the mind and sharpen the sword. If a Catholic university places the key tenets…
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