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In L.A., to mark the Chinese New Year The group’s performance will open a special afternoon Mass to commemorate the new year — the year of the monkey. Catholics, many of them Chinese Americans from throughout Southern California, will attend, as well as Cardinal Roger M. Mahony and Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang of the Archdiocese…

On the Vatican and “The Passion” Instead, intrigue. Yesterday, Jan. 21, Rod Dreher of the Dallas Morning News e-mailed Dr. Navarro-Valls and asked him about the e-mails the spokesman had sent to Steve McEveety. How could the Vatican deny the pope’s quote when you told the producer to use it again and again? Dr. Navarro-Valls…

What his polling says about us Speaking before 100-plus Catholic University of America students and faculty members Jan. 20, the day after Iowa, Zogby had the data to back up a harsh critique. “The Catholic church in America risks becoming as strange and alien to Americans as Michael Jackson,” he told the group. Zogby termed…

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This is from Publisher’s Weekly Religion e-letter: SPOTLIGHT ON… Thank You, Dan Brown Gnosticism Fever Moves Backlist to the A List The continuing popularity of Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code” and Elaine Pagels’s “Beyond Belief” has prompted an unprecedented resurgence of interest in gnosticism, as reported in BookLine last summer (June 24, July 8).…

From Michael Perhaps I wrote about this last year or perhaps I was just thinking about it at five o’clock this morning and it seems like last year, but I couldn’t help but think as I watched the President’s State of the Union address last night about offering a similar critique of the state of…

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