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The Rev. James Martin, S.J., is a Jesuit priest, author, editor at large at America and founder of Outreach.
In All Things
The General Congregation has begun with a homily by Cardinal Francis Rode C M prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life It s included here on Creighton s wonderful GC 35 website GC 35 Info The photo is by Don Doll S J a photo
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Get ready for the start of the Jesuits 35th General Congregation whose first order or nearly first order of business will be to elect a new superior general of the worldwide Society of Jesus The new General will succeed Peter-Hans Kolvenbach SJ the Dutch Jesuit who has served in the posi
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Last night CBS reran The Mystery of Christmas which cast doubt or at least tried to on some of the more popular parts of the Christmas narratives including the shepherds the magi and so on Ben Witherington III professor of New Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary did his usual fi
Faith in Focus
How overwhelming the first Christmas must have been for Mary and Joseph.
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In case you missed it here s the latest news about our latest convert whose desire to become a Roman Catholic has been long rumored on both sides of the Pond Blair was received into the church by Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O Connor on Friday In the next issue of America dated Jan 7 2008 A
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The Pope s cat Chico has written a new book called Joseph and Chico A Cat Tells the Life of Pope Benedict XVI which will be published by Ignatius Press in March From the press release In this beautifully illustrated book for children Chico the cat describes the life of his best
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Christmas is being moved to June And for good reason Beat Christmas Burnout
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This CBS television show In God s Name set to air Sunday night Dec 23 9-11PM ET looks interesting It was produced by the talented French filmmakers Jules and Gedeon Naudet who did the amazing doc on 9 11 a few years ago They filmed the destruction of the World Trade Center accidentally
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A few weeks ago Archbishop Malcolm Ranjith Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship said that he saw a certain obstinance my word not his in response to Pope Benedict s motu proprio relaxing restrictions on the Latin Mass called Summorum Pontificum Here s what Archbishop
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That s what I wanted to know when my publisher used that phrase As it turns out a book trailer is only the latest way of introducing the webby Youtubey crowd to books It s like a trailer or a coming attraction for a new movie only for a new book Like movie trailers they re short