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Pope Benedict XVI’s “First Convert”

April 19, 2025 Roger Dubin 5

Editor’s note: This essay was first posted at CWR, in slightly different form, on April 16, 2013. It is reposted here on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the election of Benedict XVI. ——– Groucho […]

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An Unplanned Night at the Unplanned Premiere

March 20, 2019 Roger Dubin 6

Friday, March 15: I was chatting on the phone that evening with my good friend and former pastor, Fr. Darrin Merlino, CMF, about his upcoming venture—an interview series on SJEN.tv called “Hound of Heaven.” His first […]

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