I’ve been having a daydream about calling The Washington Post and complaining about how the Catholic Church expects Catholics to actually believe Catholic teaching. One version goes like so: Me: Hello! I’m a Catholic […]
Today is the Memorial of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American to be on the road to canonization, a process that was given formal recognition on December 19, 2011, when the Holy See announced […]
The Vatican Insider reports that Benedict XVI is working on the third volume of his Jesus of Nazareth books whie he is vacationing at Castel Gandolfo: The Pope arrived just last Tuesday at Castel Gandolfo, […]
In his most recent NRO essay, “Catholics and Modernity”, George Weigel argues that it is nigh time to lose the left-right, liberal-conservative, politically-fixated categories when it comes to accurately describing Catholicism: For it was Father […]
Do you think Melinda Gates has enough money to buy a copy of the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church? If not, perhaps those professors at Georgetown who took it upon themselves to send a […]
Physicist (and Catholic) Stephen M. Barr takes on the question, “Does Quantum Physics Make it Easier to Believe in God?” He writes: Not in any direct way. That is, it doesn’t provide an argument for […]
From Vatican Information Service: Vatican City, 10 July 2012 (VIS) – Following is the communique released this morning on the episcopal ordination of the Reverend Joseph Yue Fusheng in Harbin and the Reverend Thaddeus Ma […]
From Catholic News Service: Five years after Pope Benedict XVI lifted most restrictions on celebration of the Tridentine Mass, a senior Vatican official says that much work remains to make the traditional liturgy fully accessible […]
A July 6th press release from the USCCB reports on recent Catholic-Jewish discussion focused, in part, on a ground-breaking annotated New Testament: The semi-annual consultation of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops/National Council of Synagogues (USCCB/NCS) discussed […]
Over on the Laetificat blog, Elizabeth does some digging into the over-hyped (and now concluded) “Nuns on the Bus” tour: After going to see the Nuns on the Bus in Janesville, WI, I found on facebook a video the Sinsinawa […]
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