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If you haven’t encountered this yet, pop over to Roger Ebert’s blog and read his harrowing, heartfelt, mystical reflections on what life has been like since he lost the ability to eat or drink. He probably doesn’t realize it, but there is something almost eucharistic in the connections he makes — about the power of…

Disappearing and dying off, according to this assessment from the Wall Street Journal. And the author suggests that this isn’t actually a good thing: Where is the second generation of brilliant progressive Catholic theologians? There are plenty of liberal lay Catholics. The church’s ban on artificial birth control is nearly a dead letter, a majority…

I had the privilege of seeing this video early this morning at the USCCB in Washington. The Archbishop of New York is in Rome, celebrating the anniversary of the North American College. Catholic News Service tracked him down late yesterday and asked him to share his thoughts. Here he is, uncut and unscripted.

Someone recently posted this charming picture of the former Cardinal Ratzinger enjoying a brewski. It made me think that he probably misses the days when he could hoist a stein and kick back with his pals and let forth with a pre-papal belch as he wondered if there was a pub open late where he…
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