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In the NYReview of Books, Garry Wills opines on TPOTC and the Jason Berry/Gerald Renner book The part on the film was business as usual, but the longer section, focusing on the Legionaries, is more interesting – for those of us who have not yet read it, Wills offers a useful summation of Berry and…

I have some things to do today, plus a babysitter-free Monday. I will blog this evening – lots, probably, since Michael is out of town tonight and tomorrow. In the meantime, I leave you an open thread, with perhaps a suggestion that we offer prayers for peace today…. And I guess the only other thing…

In Mexico In the tough Tepito neighborhood, where poverty, corruption and violence are daily realities, there is a beloved “saint” who understands and forgives the frailties of all human flesh. Her domain is a labyrinth of grimy streets lined with auto-body shops and humble mom-and-pop stores. From her perch behind a glass-encased altar adorned with…

Religion and teens Here’s a crazy idea: After all our ambitious child-rearing with Discovery toys, Suzuki piano lessons, conflict-avoidance classes, 4 a.m. swim practices, SAT prep classes, driver education and summer flights to study folk music in the Republic of Georgia, we might have done as well (and saved a lot of money) by just…

Deepest sympathy and prayers for Johnette Benkovic (of Living His Life Abundantly ministry and EWTN show) and her family on the sudden death of her son in a traffic accident

Pop star, singer, movie star.

…about the state of the Church at any level, here are my suggestions: (Besides the assumed pray more, seriously open yourself to Christ in the liturgy no matter how the externals bug you, study some history, etc) 1) Get a spiritual director and submit yourself to direction. If you are seriously discouraged in your faith,…

Her name is Sister Lourdes Even after the United Nations had come to East Timor, Sister Lourdes’ work with the militia and the refugees was not complete. Thousands of East Timorese were still being held by militia in camps in Indonesian-held West Timor and so, in the spring of 2001, Sister Lourdes went there to…

This weekend, the Holy Spirit Trappist Monastery in Conyers, Georgia celebrates 60 years Holy Spirit was organized in March 1944 as an offshoot of Gethsemani, another Cistercian monastery in Kentucky. Most of the 20 founding monks had never been in the Deep South. Father Luke Kot, 92, says the locals didn’t know what to make…

An editorial in the SF Examiner wonders why the Bush administration is opposed to 10 million in federal funds going to help prop up and restore California missions The administration is opposed to using federal funds to restore 19 of the missions, which are owned by the Catholic Church and used for worship services. It…
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