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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

I thought Galileo's Most Severe Punishment Was House Imprisionment in a Palace; I was wrong

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. Those secularists will never forget or forgive for the awful punishments given to Galileo for daring to state that the Earth moves around ...
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Seminarians, World-Wide

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. There has been a great increase in seminarians since the low point of the mid 70s (after high school seminaries were virtually abolished)...

The Congregation For the Clergy Has All Kinds of Bureaucratic Reports. Click on the Chart to make it bigger.

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. Now, if you can't read French, that's not my problem! But a rough translation tells me that North America and Europe are losing pr...

Biblia Clerus: Catholics Now Have an OnLine Bible Concordance Based in Rome

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. The Vatican Congregation for the Clergy has unveiled a powerful new web site, linking Bible texts with commentary from the Church fathers...
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Sunday, December 9, 2007

Winona Daily News: God be with you, Bishop Hoeppner

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. In higher education circles they call it the brain drain — the phenomenon of the best and brightest leaving an area for greener pastures. ...
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"The Golden Compass" up against nobody, doesn't impress at Box Office

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. From Hogwarts to Hoth, with oodles of clever literary references, The Golden Compass manages to evoke several popular movie franchises wi...
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Saturday, December 8, 2007

If Archbishop Fulton Sheen Invented Television Evangelism 50 + years ago. . .

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. . . .Why do so few U.S. Dioceses and Parishes take the next step? If it wasn't for EWTN, Catholicism would be almost extinct on telev...

The Immaculate Conception Meme, suggested to me

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I've got three hours and two minutes to post this and have it still qualify as an "Immaculate Conception Meme." Actually, it ...
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A History of Christmas Carols

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. Oberndorf, Salzburg, Oesterreich (Austria) The Silent Night Chapel . From the hillsides of Bethlehem to the present Maria von Trapp (who...

Bored Romans?

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. . If you were in St Peter's Square and the Pope was known to be in the vicinity, where would you be looking? Maybe they are watching ...
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Archbishop Flynn Responds to Kersten Column in the Strib

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. Katherine Kersten's column of Dec. 4 ("Battle for soul of St. Thomas takes a turn for the worse") was an inaccurate...
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Friday, December 7, 2007

Duluth/Chisholm Native Appointed Bishop of Passaic, New Jersey

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. . Surprised? Me, too! I thought the capital of Ruthenia was Grand Fenwick . I apologize to all the Ruthenians out there. I don't ...
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Thursday, December 6, 2007

What did Archbishop Burke bring to St Louis Schools? Chapel Veils and Tonsures!

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. . . Well, maybe not tonsures for the boys! Canons Regular of the New Jerusalem

Messing with the Liturgy: The Problem of Narcissism in the Mass Today

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. . This article, published in the November 2007 issue of the Catholic Education Resource Center may be of interest. The full article may b...

Mandatory Reading: The Facts of Marriage

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. Keeping Marriage Public By Michael Fragoso, in First Things Prof. Stephanie Coontz recently took to the pages of th...

How Catholic-Bashing Became Respectable

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. It is worth asking in passing whether Jews could now be depicted with the same idiom as is now being deployed against Catholics ...

What's unusual about this Advent Wreath?

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. . Pope’s Adventskranz has four RED candles Thursday I [not moi] walked past the Vatican Christmas tree on my way up to Pope Benedict’s pri...
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Kersten: Battle for the Soul of Thomas University

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. A decade ago, Prof. Frank Mach of the University of St. Thomas made a startling prediction in a paper he wrote for a conference on the ins...
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Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Bishop Samuel Aquila: If we do not warn our people that choosing 'intrinsic evils' will have an impact on their salvation, I believe we are failing.

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. One year before next November's national elections, U.S. Catholic bishops overwhelmingly approved new moral guidelines for Catholic vo...
Sunday, December 2, 2007

There is Still Hope For the Church in England

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. The Bishop of Lancaster, Patrick O’Donoghue – known almost universally as “Pod” – has just issued a brave and radical set of instructions ...