Benedict as translated by Gerald

September 12, 2006 By

Gerald, our multi-lingual smarty-pants friend, has translated Benedict XVI’s homily from last Sunday, and either he did a great job or the Holy Father did! In any case, it’s well-worth the read. An excerpt: Now we have to turn to the Gospel which speaks of the healing of a deaf-mute by Jesus. Here we once [...]

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Sanity, insanity, distortions and questions

September 5, 2006 By

The problem with writing as much as I do is that I don’t get to read as much as I’d like. Too often I fall behind in reading the folks in my blogroll – who are there because I think they’re absolutely worth reading – and linking to them in “round ups,” but it is [...]

Filed Under: Benedict XVI, John Paul II, War on Terror

Oh Happy Day! Catholic Music gets saved!

June 27, 2006 By

The rather prissy and disapproving tone of this article aside, one can only leap for joy to read that the pope has finally spoken out about the travesty that is Catholic Music in the 21st century. I am not kidding when I said that this past weekend I listened to a guitarist and a barely-competant [...]

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Come to Coney Island, Pope!

June 15, 2006 By

Very cute satire from the Onion. Pope Benedict XVI returned to Rome today following a historic, three-day trip to Six Flags St. Louis, the first official papal visit to a major American theme park since Pope Paul VI’s Thanksgiving Mass at Wet ‘n Wild in August 1966 [...] Early Saturday morning, Benedict delivered a children’s [...]

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Remembering John Paul II

April 2, 2006 By

***This post will be updated with new links and stories as I find them, keep scrolling down*** CNS file Photo by Arturo Mari A year after the death of John Paul II and the elevation of Benedict XVI, the always terrific John Allen has an intelligent and well-written look at the last year. It’s long, [...]

Filed Under: Benedict XVI, Catholic Vocations, Catholicism, John Paul II

Abdul Rahman thanks Pope Benedict XVI

March 30, 2006 By

I know I couldn’t be the only one who wondered, when Italy intervened, if Uncle Benedict had anything to do with it. Abdul Rahman seems to be saying as much, here ROME – An Afghan man who had faced the death penalty in his homeland for converting from Islam to Christianity said Thursday he was [...]

Filed Under: Benedict & Islam, Benedict XVI, Catholicism, Dialogue re Islam, Faith

The Pope to China?

March 28, 2006 By

This could be huge – good news for oppressed Christians all over the world, not just in China! Pope Benedict XVI told a delegation from Hong Kong he will visit China in what would be an extraordinary papal visit to the communist nation, but he said the trip’s timing depends on “God’s wish,” media reports [...]

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