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Video interview with Bishop Cordileone

Posted on 20 July 2007

Here's a video interview with Bishop Salvatore Cordileone, auxiliary of San Diego, at The Cafeteria is Closed blog.  The Bishop is a good friend of Catholic Exchange and appears in our film Champions of Faith. As the interviewer says:

He's a…

Outstanding Motu Proprio summary

Posted on 20 July 2007

The best overview and commentary on the Holy Father's motu proprio on the Latin Mass that I've seen so far comes from Fr. Richard C. Hermes, S.J., pastor of the Church of the Immaculate Conception in New Orleans.

Fr. Hermes…

Podcast interview with Tom Allen on Champions of Faith

Posted on 25 May 2007

CE's very own Tom Allen is interviewed on the GoodCatholic.com blog's Catholic Spotlight podcast.  Tom talks about the making of Champions of Faith, why it's so important that all Catholic men see this film, and some exciting new…

Evangelical Theological Society President Becomes Catholic

Posted on 07 May 2007

Francis Beckwith, associate professor of church-state studies at Baylor University and current president of the Evangelical Theological Society, has been received into the Roman Catholic Church, as reported in Beckwith's own blog, and Touchstone's Mere Comments blog.  Technically,…

Prayers and cards needed for a little boy

Posted on 04 May 2007

Heidi Hess Saxton of Canticle Magazine reports in her blog that the 3 1/2 year old son of a Canticle employee has just been diagnosed with leukemia and will be undergoing chemotherapy. His name is Gabriel Sullivan, son of Tom and…

Father Byles of the Titanic

Posted on 28 April 2007

This is a little late for the 95th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, which was on April 15, but here is a site dedicated to the memory of Father Thomas Byles, an English priest who went down…

The Masculine Genius

Posted on 25 April 2007

This outstanding interview with Touchstone's Anthony Esolen focuses on an often-discussed but still very relevant topic: the need for men to live up to their God-given gifts to serve their families and others.  

There are some great Catholic organizations…

Sixty Years of Mere Christianity

Posted on 21 April 2007

At Touchstone’s website, N.T. Wright offers a retrospective and appreciation of C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity, one of the most Catholic books by a non-Catholic, on the sixtieth anniversary of its publication. Further discussion here.

This thin volume has brought…

Fr. Euteneuer on Contraception

Posted on 17 April 2007

Human Life International has graciously given Catholic Exchange permission to run Father Thomas Euteneuer's series of video lectures on contraception.

In the first video, he explains how contraception does not prevent abortions, but rather the opposite. In the second,…

More Divine Mercy sites

Posted on 10 April 2007

Here's a comprehensive website on the Divine Mercy from the Congregation of The Sisters of Merciful Jesus, an order of sisters founded by Fr. Michael Sopocko, the spiritual director of St. Faustina.

This link came from RayOfMercy.org, a new Divine Mercy…

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