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My brother Steve, who is a seminarian for the Diocese of Arlington and
entering Third Theology at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, has a bunch
of interesting photos posted on his flickr site.
There are quite a lot of photos of events at the seminary, but a
couple of photos and sets are worth a look:
Mary Immaculate Center and the Queen of All Saints Chapel
John Paul II
And last but not least, a beautiful photo he took a few years ago of
my wife Teresa.
Check back often – he adds new photos with some frequency!

Short, sweet, and likely to get Michael Moore’s goat.

Defeated [French] Socialists search for scapegoats

According to a Pew survey, 1/3 of Latinos in American prefer “to be involved in churches where an enthusiastic, hand-clapping, arms-raised style of worship and prayer is typical.”
Couple that with the inroads that the pentecostal movement is making in Brazil and what do you have?
Proof that many people will trade sound theology for a highly-charged emotional experience and promises an easy path to salvation. Not to over-simplify the situation too much of course.

Whole article pasted for your enjoyment.

Soccer Game for Priests, Imams Canceled
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) – A soccer game between Muslim imams and Christian priests at the end of a conference to promote interfaith dialogue was canceled Saturday because the teams could not agree on whether women priests should take part.
Church of Norway spokesman Olav Fykse Tveit said the imams refused to play against a mixed-gender team of priests because it would have gone against their beliefs in avoiding close physical contact with strange women.
The church decided to drop its female players and the priests’ team captain walked out in protest.
Hours before the game was to end the daylong “Shoulder to Shoulder” conference in Oslo, the church released a statement saying it had called off the match because it was sending the wrong signal.
“Because we thought it would be a nice conclusion of the conference we didn’t want to call it off, so we decided to stage an all-mens team game instead,” Tveit said. “We realize now that it will be wrong to have a priest team without women.”

Now Catholic priests and Imans – that’s a match that could happen without incident.