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And they look nice. And there’s a nice review coming from a rather important online source sometime in the next few days, I think. I guess. I’m still not going to put it on the bookstore until Monday – we’re going to be away this weekend, so there’s no point. If you are a journalist…

So I guess I can tell you. Yup. Nothing like old ladies being pregnant, huh? Coming your way, December 2004: The Return of In Between Naps. (Sorry about that for those who checked in earlier. I’m just so accustomed to thinking a year ahead – which is what people who write books generally do.) (Hopefully.…

At Beliefnet.

Cardinal George explores the question We pray these Lenten days for those to be baptized at the Easter Vigil. In the early years of the Church, it seems that those being baptized turned west, toward the setting sun and the place of gathering darkness, and there repudiated Satan and all his works. Then they turned…

Peter Steinfels takes a look at the John Jay Report Many conservatives have blamed the scandal on a postconciliar “silly season” along with a “culture of dissent.” Liberals have emphasized, on the contrary, a repressive culture of denial, silence, and secrecy, again focusing on sex, which marked preconciliar Catholicism and the seminaries in particular. Both…

A piece in NRO about using government funds to explain the religious understanding of evolution The purpose of the “Understanding Evolution” website is to instruct teachers in how they should teach evolution, and the federal government (through the National Science Foundation) came up with $450,000 for the project. As might be expected, the science presented…

is doing better. He updates on his condition here.

Islamic high school opens in old Catholic church building in Boston area. Robert Mond, a California native who was raised a Catholic and converted to Islam in 1988, is Al-Noor’s principal. He said the academy hopes it can raise awareness about Islam, and show that despite the violent acts of a few fanatical Muslim militants,…

Work with Assyrian Church leaders as well to produce DVD of ancient documents.

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