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Stories on the death of Br. Roger of Taizé from the Associated Press, Catholic News Service, and the BBC, along with readers' comments on the latter.

This is the notice I received from the community this morning:News from Taizé by email ( Read more... )

Oh my. I just saw from seraphimsigrist's journal that Brother Roger of Taizé died tonight around the time of evening prayer ( Read more... )

Perhaps this, at last, might make some impression in the pragmatic and results-driven culture of the West as to why Monasticism isn't a complete waste of a life. Granted, that would be a silly way for the impression to be made, but anything to get through to these people....Monks run out of the world's best beerAug 11, 12:36 PM (ET ( Read more... )

Is anyone this sentimental and geeky? Do you, like I do, so love certain messages you get on your answering machine that you actually save them? That you get a grin listening to them once again every now and then? I actually copied them, after a while, 'cause the saved ones were taking up so much room, onto a tape, and now that had been ( Read more... )

The Epiphanies of Beauty: The Arts in a Post-Christian Culture conference went off about as well as I could have hoped in South Bend this weekend. It was most pleasing for seeing lots of old friends and former students, of course. Getting to spend hours with Lang and Dina is a rare event in life nowadays, and though I got to see Nathaniel in ( Read more... )

Reprinted from a letter from this time:
The steroids (prednizone) have really kicked in today and I've been eating like it was going out of style. That has proved to be the bulk of my day, except for movie-watching. This is the first time I've actually entertained myself while home sick. Turner Movie Classics is going through this huge review ( Read more... )