The always-interesting John Allen has some insight and context in today’s New York Times regarding the Vatican’s new document Dignitas Personae: The roughly 67 million Catholics in the United States make up nearly one-quarter of the American population, but just 6 percent of the global Catholic total of 1.1 billion. Ninety-four percent of the Catholics…

When it comes to Christmas trees, some of us are still trying to untangle the lights and keep the dog from lifting his leg on the trunk. But those wise souls at the Vatican are already thinking ahead to what they’ll do with the pope’s Christmas tree when the holidays are over: Although news reports…

Pope Benedict continues to use every modern tool he can to spread The Word. The pope who sent text messages at World Youth Day is now using another tool for the New Evangelization: In preparation for Christmas, Pope Benedict XVI asked Rome university students to read and meditate on St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans…

What’s it like to be an archbishop? Cardinal Sean O’Malley in Boston lets us know regularly in his engaging, self-named blog. And now Wilton Gregory of Atlanta is getting into the act, with a lengthy look at one day in his life in the Georgia Bulletin: A recent 14-hour day spent with Archbishop Wilton D.…

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