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No, not Catholic Answers, but The Catholic Answer – the OSV publication edited by Paul Thigpen. An apologetics question (and answer) of the day.

I read the first four or five Harry Potter book, mostly for work purposes – I wrote about the series a couple of times, and since the issue was on the front burner of the religion – pop culture stove for a cuople of years, I needed to keep up. But it’s not exactly in…

….in Kansas City!

…you might want to add the blog of Vaticanista Andrea Tornielli at Il Giornale to your daily stops.. Il direttore dei programmi tedeschi della Radio Vaticana, il gesuita Eberhard von Gemmingen, intervistato dal Messaggero, ha detto: “Nella Cappella Sistina vedrei bene sessanta Cardinali uomini e sessanta donne: perchè non sognare che sessanta donne illustri della…

A shockingly well-written piece in the Salt Lake Tribune, by Jessica Ravitz on a new (as of 2003) Carmelite foundation in Wyoming. I say that because the writer does what is seemingly so hard for too many religion writers to do – she gets the lingo right. How does she do this? I don’t know,…

Kidnapped Italian missionary priest Giancarlo Bossi was released last week, and will be returning to Italy in August His deepest desire is to “be able to embrace my people”, but it will also be wonderful to “see my family again”. Before his return to Italy, Fr. Bossi will undergo further medical tests, to exclude any…

Today, on vacation, the Pope prayed the Angelus and had some words: “Never again war!”: from the mountains of Cadore, a place of great natural beauty that was transformed into a theatre of slaughter during the First World War, Benedict XVI launched an appeal that the path of peace and dialogue be chosen above conflict.…

  My birthday was this past week, with no big page-turning feeling accompanying it, though. The reason is idiocyncratic. I was born in 1960, a year which ends in "0," which makes it easy to remember how old I am. Because the last digit of my age matches the last digit of the year. In…

Many are writing about LA Times Religion reporter William Lobdell’s column on his loss of faith. The short version is that Lobdell had a conversion experience in an evangelical setting, got involved in religion reporting, then started attending RCIA (his wife was Catholic) just about the time that the most recent round of clergy sex…
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