Casual readers of Catholic blogs might have been puzzled by the high interest in the just released English translation of the Compendium of the Catechism.  The US version has taken far longer than almost any other to be released, the dates have been pushed back repeatedly for months, and earlier this week, when word finally…

An Episcopal priest continue the journey…(via Pontifications) When considering becoming a Roman Catholic the first thing that most people would obviously take into consideration would be the Pope. I realized that people who have a high view of the Pope are almost always Catholic. The reason for this I believe is that there is an…

..for the transcript of Cardinal Mahony’s online chat at the LA Religious Education Congress to be posted. Update: Here’s the transcript, with the questions being asked afresh from kids online. No relationship to the submitted questions. Which might be consistent with the past, for all I know. Mostly immigration questions, it seems. That link will…

The news was full of the 31 parishes being closed in the Archdiocese of New York. Let’s not forget about the 14 schools. Today in the NYTimes, Dan Barry writes of one school in the Bronx. (only available to TimesSelect subscribers, of which I am not one. Thanks to Mary Campbell Gallagher, whose site and…

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