Atheist Christopher Hitchens and Catholic Dinesh D'Souza recently debated at the University oEf Notre Dame (GO IRISH!) and ND has kindly decided to stream the video online.

Here are the goods:

The God Debate: Is Religion the Problem?

Pewsitter, a Catholic news aggregation site, needs more hits!

What do you say...could you spare a moment for a click?

A friend of mine from Our Lady's University (GO IRISH!!) who has always been far more mystical than me recently sent me an e-mail about the Eastern Rite folks (who get far too little press, if you ask me). Here's the skinny:

I have just been listening to Light of the East Radio after I met a monk that contributes to the show, Father Maximos. They do shows about Eastern Catholicism. It reminded me of your site, and I am going to start listening again.

By the way, there is an excellent series on that site that Fr. Maximos did a few years back. It starts with Broadcast 200 ("Recovering a Sacramental World View - Part I of IV: Is a Sacrament a Thing or an Event?". Guest Host: Father Maximos) and goes through 203. You should listen to it and perhaps link it.

Long time friend of the show Tim Troutman sent in the following:

We have a new podcast up at Called to Communion that I think your subscribers will enjoy. Tom Riello, interviews Tom Brown on his recent article entitled, "The Canon Question." The question is how can we know which books belong in the bible.

Check it thou out!

...has to go to the guys at Catholic Stuff You Should Know. The podcasts are about 10-15 minutes long, fast paced and (above all) interesting! Find them at the link or on iTunes, and if you enjoy them be sure to leave a review on iTunes.



Also on the list is Mike and Eve Are Catholic, a podcast by a nice convert couple. If you like them, be sure to let them know on their Facebook page.

Reader Kathy sent me the following request:

I would like to download as many Italian prayers, psalms, etc that I can find; Religious songs in Italian also.

If you have more or links to these would you please let me know?

I've got these. Anyone got the skinny on where Kathy can find more?

The folks at LatinMassSchedule.com have put their sermons online. I haven't had a chance to check them out yet, so if you give them a listen would you please let the rest of us know what you think?

Oh, and they also have some video, like this one of the rubrics of the traditional low mass:

Resurrexit, sicut dixit!

If you've never heard the Exultet, do give it a listen.


Fr. Tim Hepburn's MP3 Recording in English

Exultet.mp3 (moleski.net)
Exultet.mp3 (canisius.edu)


In Latin:

Benedyktyńskie Śpiewy Chorałowe

Got this in the ol' e-mail box:

Hi.

Love your website--incredibly great resources! Just not enough hours in the day for all those wonderful speakers.

Here's a site you may want to check out: www.wordnet.tv. It's run by some Society of the Divine Word priests in San Bernardino, CA, headed by Fr. Michael Manning.

Here's a link to their audio podcast page

I came across them quite by accident; one day I was surfing The Church Channel (a side channel of the Trinity Broadcast Network, of all things), and saw...a Catholic Mass! I couldn't believe it. A half-hour Mass, on an evangelist network? Still, there it was, from Wordnet Productions.

The Mass is also online.

Then I found out they also do a weekly interview show, The Power of Love.

Check 'em out!

Thanks, and keep up the good work!
Scott R.

Thanks, Scott.

You heart the man -- check 'em out!

Just wanted to give a shout out to a good friend of mine who has (finally) decided to start blogging. Would you kind folks please drive some traffic that way?


Tell your wives, sisters and girlfriends.

Oh, and please leave her a comment. You can tell her I sent ya'.

Thanks, and God Bless!

Longtime reader Dave S. wrote in with an e-mail offer from Catholic author/speaker Steve Kellmeyer:

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Steve Kellmeyer Bridegroom Press

Fr. Z reports:

On Monday evening, 1 March 2010, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver gave a speech at Houston Baptist University called “The Vocation of Christians in American Public Life”.

The lecture was presented in coordination with the Pope John Paul II Forum for the Church in the Modern World at the University of St. Thomas.

He criticized President John F. Kennedy’s historic campaign speech on his faith impacting his possible presidency as “sincere, compelling, articulate – and wrong.”

I think this was a very important address. As such, I decided to make a PODCAzT by reading the text of the Archbishop’s speech (yes, it is available also on Youtube) with by comments before and after. I received the link to the Youtube page while I was making this, but decided to post anyway. And my rendering of the talk section is a bit short that the original. Check the page of the Archdiocese of Denver.

10-03-02 Archbp. Chaput on The Vocation of Christians in American Public Life [49:55m]: Hide Player | Play in Popup | Download