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Time magazine has an article about Postulants, Novitiates and Nuns including some who blog.  (tip from Rebecca ]

That led me to the very interesting blog by Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston.  Of course  significant components are religious and theological matters.  Apart from that I admired his stunning photographs of the Baltimore Basilica, including in the crypt museum letters from George Washington to the Roman Catholics of the United States, and from Thomas Jefferson to Archbishop Carroll.  I note that Washington's letter's salutation is "Gentlemen".  Leaving out the females perhaps?  A man and letter of his time. 

A comment about Maryland from the Cardinal's blog:

"In Maryland, which was the Catholic State…the King of England gave to Lord Baltimore…was the one of the few places in the New World where there was religious freedom because the Catholics allowed other people to come practice their faith there as well."

The Baltimore Basilica just reopened after a major restoration. 

Want more blogs by Catholic clergy?  Go to Lisa's blog and check out her blogroll. 

I like this one from Jesuit Joe. 

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SPECIAL REPORT:The Pope Of Prayer from www.vaticans.org

STOP JUDGING BY EXTERNAL STANDARDS, AND JUDGE BY TRUE STANDARDS-John 7:24(TEV) - (CINS)

A remarkable day in the history of the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey. Benedict XVI thus became the second Pope to visit a mosque after his predecessor Pope John Paul II.

At the Blue Mosque, the Pope removed his shoes and put on white slippers. Then he walked beside Mustafa Cagrici, the head cleric of Istanbul. Facing the holy city of Mecca — in the tradition of Islamic worship — Cagrici said: "Now I'm going to pray." The Holy Father, too, bowed his head and his lips moved as if reciting words."

Pope's moving lips were captured by television cameras and transmitted by satellite instantaneously around the world, to the ends of the earth. For this moment, Pope Benedict XVI was not teaching, or explicating, or lecturing. He was not debating historical events and their meaning. He was not the "German professor," the "professor pope."

He was "THE POPE OF PRAYER”

But he was praying in a very unusual place, for a pope: in a Muslim mosque. One of the famous Muslim mosques in the world. And mosques are places dedicated to Allah, not to the Trinitarian God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Was this right?

The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said the mosque visit was added as a "sign of respect" to Muslims. "A (Christian) believer can pray in any place, even a mosque," Lombardi said, calling it an "intimate, personal prayer."

This shows that, in such matters, external, visible signs may be of less importance than the moment’s inner meaning. For the inner meaning of a thing is something that cannot be seen or heard, but only understood with heart.