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Well, now I can know what everyone’s talking about. Saw TPOTC on Saturday, as it turned out. Michael came up with the idea of me and Katie seeing it at the big AMC theater in Newport, KY, so he could take Joseph to the Newport Aquarium, all in the same complex, Newport on the Levee,…

Freed as you are from the ability to post comments here! Open again for business Sunday evening. Reminder: Clicking on the picture at the top left will take you to daily readings from the Liturgy of the Hours. Registration for HMSU’s first set of courses closes Monday! Come talk over parables with me!

As we read through and contemplate these reports, that’s what we’re all looking for: the First Cause. There is none, except human sin. Sorry. No easy answers on this. As Joe pointed out in a post below, this is not a new problem that anyone can blame on Vatican II. Clerical sexual abuse of youth…

In answer to a query, no I have not yet seen it, and there are no deep reasons. We have a two-year old. We have to tag-team things like that. Michael saw it on Wednesday at the theater in the small town where OSV is located, but all showings here in The Fort were sold…

Bishop’s press conference was now. (noon) Just about wrapping up. On CSpan.

I’ve created a page describing the new book. It’s here, with an excerpt from the intro and the table of contents.

Here is the link to the texts of the reports. (It appears that the reports themselves are pdf files, btw) Here’s an HTML link

The Reports, being released today. The bishops are holding a news conference as we speak (about 9:40), but none of the cable news channels are carrying it, and we don’t get EWTN anymore, so…I’m in the dark on that. If anyone has been able to see any of it and would like to post, please…

Shawn McComber, who watched the New Hampshire primary hijinks for the American Spectator, goes to see the Passion As show time crept closer, some surprisingly un-Christian behavior began. A teenage couple in matching “Jesus: The Choice of a New Generation” T-shirts made out against the wall next to me without the slightest prick of self-consciousness.…

Stephen Prothero in the WSJ In one striking scene, the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene sop onto linens the blood left behind after Jesus’ scourging at the hands of sadistic Roman centurions. Odd that these women care more about Jesus’ blood than Mr. Gibson seems to care about his character. Plainly this is not the…

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