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to investigate charges against Dupre. Good.

Taking a stand on sexual abuse? Rod Dreher has a piece about them in today’s WSJ Mother Veronica Sweeney, 66, and Sister M. Angela Ferry, 53, have devoted themselves to praying and advocating for victims of sexual abuse by clergy and members of religious orders. They run a Web site, through which they invite victims…

Thanks to all of those you who wrote in relation to my mysterious bleg. I actually have about 5 readers in NSW, it seems! More than I probably have in Fort Wayne. We’ve just about got it figured out, thanks to some clever detective work by one of those NSW folks. Thanks!

At CT’s Film Forum Worth reading, as always. And Barbara Nicolosi has more on the ugly baby Yes, I know there’s more going on than this. But this week, I’m in the midst of really trying to get my head into a project that’s due in three months. Once I get in the groove, I’ll…

Michael Novak on NRO People say that Catholics in America vote pretty much like other citizens — but the people who say that usually lose the Catholic vote. A people’s historical experience blows like a wind against snowflakes, driving enough of them now to the right, now to the left, to make a big difference…

Easterbrook compares Gibson and Zefferelli As millions of people troop to a religious film that is totally inappropriate for children–yours truly is still trying to get his head around that–I watched again Franco Zeffirelli’s 1977 Jesus of Nazareth. The contrasts between this–the previous big-name-director attempt at the Jesus story–and Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the…

On “The Passion of the Liberal” One Times review of “The Passion” said: “To be a Christian is to face the responsibility for one’s own most treasured sacred texts being used to justify the deaths of innocents.” At best, this is like blaming Jodie Foster for the shooting of Ronald Reagan. But the reviewer somberly…

British novelist Hilary Mantel reviews some books and discusses physical suffering and young female saints What should Jesus want her to suffer? To talk about female masochism seems reductive and unhelpful. You have to look the saints in the face; say how the facts of their lives revolt and frighten you, but when you have…

The Mental Sufferings of Our Lord During His Passion by John Henry Newman There, then, in that most awful hour, knelt the Saviour of the world, putting off the defences of His divinity, dismissing His reluctant Angels, who in myriads were ready at His call, and opening His arms, baring His breast, sinless as He…

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