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Has the ecumenical movement lost steam? That’s the big question behind Peter Steinfels’ column this Saturday, marking the centennary of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. A snip from the New York Times: In many countries, Christians deeply devoted to unity among their separate groups will gather in one anothers’ churches to pray and…

And now for something completely different — and utterly surprising: the story of a Georgia couple who reversed a sterilization procedure, and welcomed a bouncing baby boy: Etched into David Hanson’s memory is the image of his wife, Catherine, having just delivered their sixth child by emergency C-section, being wheeled on a gurney away from…

Just in time for the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, some surprising but very encouraging news on the abortion front today, from the Chicago Tribune: The abortion rate in the United States has fallen to its lowest level since 1974, the first full year after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized the procedure nationwide, new data…

The sage John Allen last week posted this chin-scratcher, and it’s worth a read: his picks for the 10 most neglected Vatican-related stories of 2007. From NCR: Every society has its shorthand ways of signaling what it considers important. At the level of pop culture, Americans know something registers when David Letterman or Jon Stewart…
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