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- And With Your White Book: The Missal Is Approved
- Rabbi's pitch to pope: Use family dinners to defuse abuse crisis
- The Doctors Are In
- Remembering Pope John Paul II
- Freedom vs. ‘Rights'?
- Putting Sunday Mass First
- Kenneth L. Woodward: "The New York Times isn't fair."
- ‘Not an Investigation'
- For All the Saints: Catherine of Siena
- Anti-Catholicism is the New Vegas
- "Houston, We Have a Problem."
- Agonizing in Arizona - A Pastoral Pondering on Immigration Policy
- Beyond Soda vs. Pop
- Can the Theological Virtues Eat the Natural Ones?
- World's 50 best restaurants list released
- One reaction to the Pontifical Mass in Washington DC: "offensive… silly… undecorous"
- The Utopia Instinct
- The astonishing memo that helped change the church
- Make the Pope's trip to Britain a pastoral one, not a state visit funded by the taxpayer
- Have they really discover Noah's Ark? An archaeologist examines the claim, and smells a pair of rats..
- A primer on ordination blessings and indulgences
- CDF Meets PBS..
- Blessed are the Meek
- New Mass Translation Given Rome's Approval
- From ghoulies and ghosties and three leggedy beasties..
- NT Wright Retires from Anglican Episcopate
- AP claims pope will apologize for abuse by priests, and I get a little impatient
- Laura Bush on losing her faith
- Report on Legionaries due April 30; no immediate papal action expected
- New York Times acknowledges: lawyer steered coverage of abuse story
- Sounding the alarm on the diseases that nobody wants to talk about..
- Fr. Barron on Creation
- The Fall of Satan: A Spiritual Lesson
| And With Your White Book: The Missal Is Approved Posted: 29 Apr 2010 09:20 AM PDT A decade in the making -- and after an oft-contentious process that's been both praised and panned... and, on all sides, pored over intensely throughout -- it's now official: the complete revision of the Roman Missal in English is an impending reality of church life. Within the hour... |
| Rabbi's pitch to pope: Use family dinners to defuse abuse crisis Posted: 29 Apr 2010 06:20 AM PDT A rabbi walks into St. Peter's Square, meets the pope, and tells the Holy Father that one way to defuse the sex abuse scandal plaguing the church is for the Vatican to begin promoting a secular version of Shabbat dinner, the traditional Jewish Friday meal. It's no joke. |
| Posted: 29 Apr 2010 06:17 AM PDT As it has for some six centuries, this 29 April again marks the feast of one of the great saints of ecclesiastical renewal: Catherine of Siena (1347-80), who served in turns as a nurse, mystic and Dominican tertiary... but remains most famous for her pen... |
| Posted: 29 Apr 2010 06:14 AM PDT I loved Pope John Paul II. In fact, I'm not sure I'd be Catholic today without his writing, example, and leadership. No matter how his papacy is measured in the long run, to me he reigns supreme as a man who combined personal holiness with brilliance. |
| Posted: 28 Apr 2010 10:00 PM PDT Last December, the D.C. City Council legalized same-sex "marriage." It insisted that all city contractors honor this redefinition of marriage. The Council refused to make exceptions for faith-based ministries like Catholic Charities, which provides many services to the poor. The Archdiocese of Washington, to its everlasting credit... |
| Posted: 28 Apr 2010 10:00 PM PDT J ust a week after the awful earthquake in Haiti last January, I was able to visit that suffering island. I was especially eager to meet our 300 Catholic Relief Services staff members who continue the 60-year presence of CRS in that impoverished country. As you can imagine, they were exhausted, emotionally drained... |
| Kenneth L. Woodward: "The New York Times isn't fair." Posted: 29 Apr 2010 02:43 AM PDT Kenneth L. Woodward, who spent nearly forty years as religion editor of Newsweek (now known as Newsweak, at least on this blog), tears into the New York Times : The New York Times isn't fair. In its all-hands-on-deck drive to implicate the pope in diocesan cover-ups of abusive priests... |
| Posted: 22 Apr 2010 04:31 AM PDT By JUDY ROBERTS, REGISTER CORRESPONDENT | Mother Clare Millea was chosen by the Vatican last year to direct the apostolic visitation of women's religious communities in the United States, an effort that has been welcomed as well as criticized. Amid the maelstrom of controversy, Mother Clare and her team have pressed on. |
| For All the Saints: Catherine of Siena Posted: 29 Apr 2010 05:18 AM PDT Fearless. Bold. Doctor of the Church. Poet. Mystic. Stigmatic. Correspondent of Popes and Royalty. Correspondent to the Faithful. Action-oriented contemplative. Saint Catherine of Siena was all these and more. She had a vision at age 6, and decided that she would become a virgin and bride of Christ by age... |
| Anti-Catholicism is the New Vegas Posted: 29 Apr 2010 04:12 AM PDT By Matthew Archbold | In the life of nearly every celebrity there's a moment after the white hot fame cools and the spotlights are averted when a decision needs to be made. Does the celebrity begin a new life in obscurity or do they break out the white spangled jumpsuits and take the first flight out to Las Vegas to milk … |
| Posted: 29 Apr 2010 04:47 AM PDT | Those words, uttered by Tom Hanks as Jim Lovell in Ron Howard's Oscar-winning Apollo 13, plastered across posters for the film, have become a ubiquitous part of the English lexicon—even though they're not exactly what the real Jim Lovell actually said. According to Wikipedia, Lovell... |
| Agonizing in Arizona - A Pastoral Pondering on Immigration Policy Posted: 28 Apr 2010 08:57 PM PDT Caution! This blog is about to heat up with controversy! Arizona and Immigration are the topic. Archbishop Dolan from New York recently blogged on the issue of Immigration and the recent developments in Arizona. And he did what every good blogger does, he kept it a bit edgy. I am going to excerpt that blog below... |
| Posted: 28 Apr 2010 06:48 PM PDT Not long before my sister married her husband, she travelled across the country to Idaho to meet his family. At one point during her visit, she got caught in a funny situation while conversing with two of her future sisters-in-law. The topic of the conversation was gardening... |
| Can the Theological Virtues Eat the Natural Ones? Posted: 28 Apr 2010 07:03 PM PDT Like many tradition-loving Catholics, I feel terrible for Darío Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos -- now the second-most hated cardinal in the Church, after Bernard Cardinal Law. As John Allen observed, Cardinal Castrillón once "was widely considered a serious contender to become the first Latin American pope." Today, he "has achieved. |
| World's 50 best restaurants list released Posted: 28 Apr 2010 07:00 PM PDT The No. 1 spot goes to Noma in Copenhagen, Denmark. The restaurant, helmed by chef René Redzepi, ranked No. 3 in 2009. The Guardian newspaper's restaurant critic Jay Rayner -- better known to U.S. food fans as a judge on "Top Chef Masters" -- agrees with the judges' decision. |
| One reaction to the Pontifical Mass in Washington DC: "offensive… silly… undecorous" Posted: 27 Apr 2010 07:45 AM PDT A reader sent me a link to a reaction from a priest of the Archdiocese of Seattle to the Pontifical Mass in Washington DC for the anniversary of the pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI. The writer in question is one… well… here is his blurb from his blog: Jan Larson, a senior priest of the Archdiocese of Seattle, was ordained in 1968. He received a... |
| Posted: 28 Apr 2010 04:58 PM PDT I really don't think I'm being cynical, but I've decided that one of the biggest disasters is the Utopia instinct. This is the instinct in the human race (and part of our fallen condition) to create perfect little worlds. Someone comes along with an ideology which will solve all our problems and we go trooping off to join him and his mission from God. |
| The astonishing memo that helped change the church Posted: 28 Apr 2010 06:52 PM PDT It was addressed to "Wilton" -- then-Bishop Wilton Gregory, President of the USCCB -- in early 2002 and was written by his chancellor. It is only now seeing the light of day. First, the story behind it, from the St. Louis Beacon: From November 2001, when Bishop Wilton Gregory was elected president of the U.S. |
| Make the Pope's trip to Britain a pastoral one, not a state visit funded by the taxpayer Posted: 28 Apr 2010 02:16 PM PDT That's the line being taken by the Catholic Herald this week, at the instigation of its editor, Luke Coppen. I think he's right. Here's the Herald's leader: The ridiculous insults directed at the Holy Father by Foreign Office officials raise fundamental questions about the papal visit to Britain in September. The Vatican has decided that Pope... |
| Posted: 28 Apr 2010 01:06 PM PDT Fox News reported today about a joint Turkish-Chinese expedition that claims to have found Noah's ark on Mount Ararat. Part of their proof is the picture below, which purports to have been taken inside the ark. Allegedly, the wooden beams carbon-date to 4,800 years old. Would that be cool or what? |
| A primer on ordination blessings and indulgences Posted: 28 Apr 2010 01:00 PM PDT A few questions related to ordinations always seem to surface about this time of year. Below are four (well, actually, five) points that might be useful to recall. |
| Posted: 27 Apr 2010 09:43 PM PDT ...literally. He might not be so hot on the Grey Lady these days, but in yet another intervention underscoring the significance with which the Holy See's taken the latest cycle of clergy sex-abuse revelations and the reaction to them... |
| Posted: 27 Apr 2010 10:03 PM PDT Today's Beatitude (Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. - Matthew 5:5) continues Jesus' tradition of transmuting lead into gold. Just as nobody wants to be poor and nobody wants to mourn, so nobody wants to be "meek". That's because we think of the meek as doormats and dartboards. |
| New Mass Translation Given Rome's Approval Posted: 28 Apr 2010 01:09 AM PDT By Edward Pentin | The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments is to issue its formal approval of the new English translation of the complete Roman Missal later today. The recognitio comes after nearly ten years of study and sometimes difficult consultation over the new translation of prayers for the Mass. Today's development will therefore mark a key step... |
| From ghoulies and ghosties and three leggedy beasties.. Posted: 28 Apr 2010 05:42 AM PDT and things that go bump in the night, Dear Lord, deliver us. This ancient and entirely respectable prayer comes to mind as I read Fr. Dwight Longenecker's reflections on his time doing front line work in the realm of spiritual warfare, exorcism and so forth. I've always accepted the biblical and ecclesial teaching on the reality of the demonic. |
| NT Wright Retires from Anglican Episcopate Posted: 28 Apr 2010 08:18 AM PDT NT Wright has announced that he will retire the bishopric of Durham on August 31. I don't blame him. Being an Anglican bishop these days is a pretty crummy occumpation. It's all falling apart and you have no magisterial (i.e. papal) support. It's a house built on sand. Here are the details from CT: Leading New Testament scholar N.... |
| AP claims pope will apologize for abuse by priests, and I get a little impatient Posted: 28 Apr 2010 09:45 AM PDT The AP makes its claims with the thinnest of proof: Pope Benedict XVI may issue a mea culpa for clerical sex abuse at a June meeting of the world's priests at the Vatican. The June 9-11 summit, initially called to mark the end of the Vatican's year of the priest... |
| Laura Bush on losing her faith Posted: 28 Apr 2010 10:05 AM PDT Posted by Mary DeTurris Poust In this powerful excerpt from a New York Times' piece about Laura Bush's new book, "Spoken from the Heart," the former first lady talks about the car crash in which she killed another driver and how the experience made her lose her faith in God for "many, many years." |
| Report on Legionaries due April 30; no immediate papal action expected Posted: 28 Apr 2010 11:05 AM PDT The five bishops who conducted an apostolic visitation of the Legion of Christ will present their report on Friday, April 30. Pope Benedict will weigh that report before taking any action,... |
| New York Times acknowledges: lawyer steered coverage of abuse story Posted: 28 Apr 2010 10:54 AM PDT In a profile of Jeffrey Anderson, the New York Times reveals that the lawyer who is attempting to bring suit against the Vatican was successful in steering the Times news coverage toward... |
| Sounding the alarm on the diseases that nobody wants to talk about.. Posted: 28 Apr 2010 11:49 AM PDT Washington, D.C., is filled with people who are genuine experts on their issues. So my news antenna always perks up when I hear someone who I know is smart, savvy and deeply invested in his issue say he has "missed" something. |
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| The Fall of Satan: A Spiritual Lesson Posted: 27 Apr 2010 11:33 PM PDT Catholics who have a devotion to Saint Michael the Archangel and know the story of Satan's fall may not realize how explicitly biblical this truth of faith is. We are tempted in our uber-technological age to write off everything as mere myth that cannot be empirically verified and confirmed by the modern sciences. |
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