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From Catholic News Service today Bishops to reconsider liturgy translation rejected in mail balloting nbsp WASHINGTON CNS — After mail balloting of bishops who did not vote at the spring meeting in Orlando Fla a 700-page translation of one section of the Roman Missal failed to get approval f

The government of New South Wales Australia has passed a special amendment regarding public conduct during the upcoming World Youth Day in Sydney As the Sydney Morning Herald reports Extraordinary new powers will allow police to arrest and fine people for causing annoyance to World You

The Pauline Year a celebration of the life of Saint Paul believed to have been born 2 000 years ago began on the Feast of Sts Peter and Paul June 29 Here is Pope Benedict s reflection on Paul for that feast day in which he reminds us that the question for Christians to ask is not si

Above Tim Russert pictured with Catholic school children CNS photo In one of the strangest religious stories of the month Sally Quinn the longtime Washington Post reporter and co-editor of the Post-Newsweek blog On Faith wrote about her decision to receive Communion at her close friend Tim

Rocco Palmo at Whispers in the Loggia has a long post on the new translation of the Sacramentary which had been discussed at the latest meeting of the U S Conference of Catholic Bishops which oddly received almost zero coverage in the national media The media was either poped out after Be

Thanks to Cathy Kaveny at Dotcommonweal for noticing this The great church historian Henry Chadwick author of the beautifully written study The Early Church has died at age 87 in Oxford England The obituary from The New York Times is here My favorite passage from that fascinating book

David Gibson former Vatican radio correspondent and author of The Coming Catholic Church and The Rule of Benedict has recently been invited to begin a new blog on Beliefnet Gibson full disclosure a good friend is full disclosure this would be true whether or not he s a friend one of

Above Tim Russert at Boston College in 2004 In the midst of the avalanche of news coverage of Tim Russert s death comes the inevitable reference to his working-class Catholic background his early education by the Sisters of Mercy as well as his Jesuit education at Canisius High School i

For everyone who said What s the big deal when the earlier Vatican document about the Tridentine Mass was promulgated comes a report from Catholic News Service Remember that even if there is and this is debatable not a groundswell of interest on the part of the American Catholic laity

Terry Gross probably the best interviewer around after Tim Reidy of course interviews Ron Hansen about his new book Exiles on her NPR show Fresh Air today See post below Two New Raves about his new novel on Gerard Manley Hopkins and the writing of The Wreck of the Deutschland No