For those of you who enjoyed Mary Doria Russell s bestselling science-fiction novel nbsp The Sparrow about a group of Jesuit scientists nbsp and lay colleagues who discover life on far-off planet with some tragic results comes this bit of casting nbsp news nbsp nbsp Many years ago there we

Here s Michael Sean Winters America s regular blogger and author of Left at the Altar nbsp on slate com on the Dems and pro-life issues Catholics for whom abortion is the only issue are never going to vote for pro-choice Democrats Many others however are less certain about both abortion

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Not to be outdone by the Democratic Conventioneers who have asked Sister Catherine Pinkerton to lead them in nbsp prayer nbsp the Republican National Committee announced this today Father Edward A Reese S J president of Brophy Prep in Phoenix will give the opening invocation at the Republica

Only if you use too much incense nbsp More specifically from the sounds of this new study only if after returning home from nbsp Mass you are in the practice of incensing your apartment all day nbsp See the article on the newly discovered nbsp link between incense and cancer here nbsp n

Thanks to Greg Kandra over at The Deacon s Bench Greg is a deacon as well as a husband and ardent mediaphile who pointed out nbsp an profile in The Cleveland Plain Dealer of Sister Catherine Pinkerton of the Congregation of St Joseph nbsp nbsp The 86-year-old sister nbsp has been chosen to

Grant Gallicho nbsp at Dotcommonweal has been doing an excellent job nbsp tracking the latest developments nbsp in the Archdiocese of Chicago here and now in the Diocese of Belleville here nbsp Though you ll be appalled nbsp it s essential reading nonetheless and shows that the sexual abuse

Do you read Busted Halo nbsp You should nbsp The online magazine for seekers in their 20s and 30s is one of the best spirituality websites around nbsp Consistently interesting thoughtful and very often witty it s the perfect place for the collegiate post-college and even poster-colle

In the Improbable Comparisons Department check out this lighthearted--but entirely accurate--look in TimeOut New York a local arts and events magazine at the upcoming seminar on Dorothy Day at the Museum of the City of New York next week nbsp Next up How is Thomas Merton like the Hulk nbsp

Cindy Wooden of CNS has the story nbsp Pope Benedict XVI has approved the beatification of Louis and Marie Zelie Guerin Martin the parents of St Therese of Lisieux nbsp The couple will be beatified Oct 19 World Mission Sunday during a Mass in the Basilica of St Therese in Lisieux France