For the third time this year, an Episcopal bishop is leaving his flock to join the Catholic Church. The following comes from The Living Church Foundation, which serves the Episcopalian church: The Rt. Rev. Jeffrey N. Steenson, Bishop of the Rio Grande, will resign from his position and become a Roman Catholic, The Living Church…

The Blogging Eminence, Boston’s Cardinal Sean O’Malley, is on the road again, with Catholic and Orthodox pilgrims, visiting Rome and Constantinople. His lovely little blog has the first installment of the trip, and it’s something to see. Week after week, the good Cardinal posts some of the most evocative and memorable pictures — which, as…

Now this case is getting interesting. Earlier in the week, a man filed a suit against God. Now God has lawyered up: Eric Perkins, an attorney in Corpus Christi, Texas, said Friday he filed a response to the lawsuit from Nebraska State Sen. Ernie Chambers. “It’s kind of a turn on ‘What would Jesus do?'”…

Has the Catholic Church gone soft? That seems to be the argument in this column from The Pilot, the Catholic paper for the Archdiocese of Boston. The piece was written by Kevin and Marilyn Ryan, editors of “Why I Am Still A Catholic.” They were dismayed at what they saw recently during vacation: The church,…

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