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Have a green Christmas

When I first imagined a 108-foot Christmas tree and 40 other smaller (just 50 feet maybe?) trees adorning St. Peter’s Square and the rest of the Vatican, I...

Misremembering Avery Dulles

Newspapers across the country are running obituaries in memory of Cardinal Avery Dulles, SJ, who died over the weekend. Many are picking up the Washington...

Mass with a message

I ran across this amazing reflection–at least I liked it–by New York Times columnist Roger Cohen about a liturgy he witnessed in Guantanamo, Cuba...

Fun with nativity sets

The war on Christmas has gone up a notch from heated rhetoric to plundering. It seems that outdoor nativity statues, as well as menorahs, are often stolen. So...

Vatican on in vitro

A long-awaited bioethics document, Dignitas Personae, was released by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. It provides a needed update to the last...

Homosexuality and the Holy See

The pope's spokesman confirmed today that the Vatican opposes laws criminalizing homosexuality, according to Catholic News Service. Most would be glad to...

A very bright Christmas

There was a big Christmas display two blocks away from the house I grew up in until age 6. Every year, even when we moved out of the state, we came back to...

What’s the world coming to?

A few random bits of odd religious news for you: South Park is taking on the Church of the Latter Day Saints through Broadway. Trey Parker and Matt Stone...