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Carl’s Cuts for August 27, 2013

August 27, 2013 Carl E. Olson 0

• Having recently published Dale Ahlquist’s review of Fr. Robert Wild’s book, The Tumbler of God: Chesterton as Mystic (Angelico Press, 2013), I was reading a bit about Servant of God, Catherine de Hueck Doherty (1886-1995), […]

Franciscan Sister Florence Deacon (center)
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O Sister, Where Art Thou?

August 23, 2013 Carl E. Olson 0

The National Catholic Register recently published a piece, “LCWR 2013 Assembly: Little Evidence Yet of Any Reforms” (Aug. 20, 2013), by Ann Carey, a CWR contributor and author of the recently published Sisters in Crisis: […]

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The Pope’s restructuring project is underway

August 22, 2013 Russell Shaw 0

Pope Francis is contemplating a major reworking of the top-level administrative machinery of the Church. Commentators sometimes describe this as “reforming the Roman Curia,” but if the Pope’s own words—together with public and private proposals […]