100,000 present in the Square and thereabouts: Christ is risen! Peace to you! Today we celebrate the great mystery, the foundation of Christian faith and hope: Jesus of Nazareth, the Crucified One, has risen from the dead on the third day according to the Scriptures. We listen today with renewed emotion to the announcement proclaimed…

Cardinal George took a fall yesterday: Cardinal Francis George was hospitalized with a slight hip fracture Saturday after he apparently slipped and fell inside a Chicago church while blessing Easter baskets, archdiocese officials said. George, 70, was at St. Ferdinand Catholic Church on the Northwest Side Saturday morning to bless baskets of food for Easter…

…if you’re like me, you see the cover of this week’s NYTimes Mag and you just cringe: Oh, no..not another hack job like the Kramer piece in the New Yorker…please.. But you know what? It’s not horrible. There are a few big holes in it, reflective of both blind spots and an not-surprisingly shallow Rolodex…

Some of you might recall that in late February, John Allen ran an column criticizing the coverage of religion, particularly Catholicism, that we find in the British press. Here’s a contender – one of many – for Exhibit A. A ridiculous and ignorant piece by the Rome correspondent of the London Times on the Stations…

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