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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- "I've stopped using the word coincidence" to describe how the upcoming film "The Way" got made, said its writer-director-producer, Emilio Estevez. "It was providence. ... It was the divine." "The Way," which stars Estevez's father, Martin Sheen, tells the story of four Westerners walking the 500-mile pilgrimage route from the French Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Sheen, who joked during a Feb. 18 interview with Catholic News Service that "I did my own walking" in the movie without a stunt double's help, recalled the first time he tried to make the pilgrimage himself. "It was in...

The Voice of Catholic Tradition on Long Island (a traditional Catholic radio program, sympathetic to the SSPX), is reporting: A significant development has occured in Rome with the announcement that H.E. Jorge Cardinal Medina Estevez will celebrate a Solemn Pontifical Mass in the Latin Rite (Traditional) on Sunday, November 6, 2005 at the Church of the Gesu on the Via del Corso.

CARACAS - A Venezuelan judge Thursday ordered a trial for four leaders of Súmate, the volunteer group that helped organize a failed vote to recall President Hugo Chávez last year. The judge accused them of ''conspiracy to destroy the country's republican system'' because they received U.S. funds. The defendants include María Corina Machado, who in May was invited to the White House for talks with President Bush and in June met with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during an Organization of American States General Assembly in Fort Lauderdale. The case against Machado, Alejandro Plaz, Ricardo Estévez and Luis Enrique...