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Pope tweets!

June 28, 2011 Catherine Harmon 0

With a tap on his iPad and a tweet from the Vatican’s Twitter account, Pope Benedict XVI officially launched news.va, a new multimedia website aggregating content from the Holy See’s various news outlets. The Vatican’s […]

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Best Corapi post I’ve seen yet

June 22, 2011 Catherine Harmon 0

Jennifer Fulwiler has the single best take on the “Once-Called-Father” Corapi kerfuffle that I’ve seen yet. She doesn’t wallow in some of the more bizarre elements of the unraveling of the priest’s public persona (and […]

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“Shift toward consumer eugenics”

June 15, 2011 Catherine Harmon 0

NPR’s Morning Edition had an interesting interview this morning with journalist Mara Hvistendahl, who has written a book about sex-selective abortion and the consequences of gender imbalances already observable in different parts of the world. […]

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More Hitchcock on liberal Catholicism

June 14, 2011 Catherine Harmon 1

The first installment of Dr. James Hitchcock’s two-part series “The Failure of Liberal Catholicism” (found in the May issue of CWR) has generated a lot of discussion, on this website and others. The second installment […]

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The implacable Holy Ghost

June 12, 2011 Catherine Harmon 0

“He glanced across the room into the small oval-framed dresser mirror. The eyes that stared back at him were the same that had returned his gaze every day from that mirror but it seemed to […]