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Here s the trailer for a new ish hour-long documentary on Dorothy Day which includes something I ve not seen before some filmed footage of Dorothy speaking on poverty nbsp If the full movie is as good as the trailer it s certainly worth the price nbsp More information on the movie can

Really nbsp Beliefnet s got the story and so does The Deacon s Bench here nbsp The information seems to have come from the newly re published biography of Governor Palin nbsp Her Wikipedia entry nbsp also notes her Catholic background and mentions her rebaptism at age 12 in an nbsp A

nbsp In response to an avalanche of responses nbsp regarding her article in America on forgiving pedophile priests Sister Camille D Arienzo sat down with Michael Paulson the religion reporter for The Boston Globe for an interview that ran in this nbsp Sunday s edition of the paper to discu

On NPR And it s not Brad Pitt s nbsp For that see below James Martin SJ

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

Looking for some books on spiritual topics that won t rip open your backpack or crush your stomach while you re reading in bed Look no further James Martin SJ

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