FIrst, prayers for BIshop Mengeling of Lansing, still serving at the age of 76, just diagnosed with bladder cancer. Speaking of Michigan bishops, they have issued a statement urging immigration reform. Questions are raised and confusion surrounds the actions in bishops in Wisconsin and Connecticut, Catholic hospitals, rape victims and emergency contraception: Lifesite news provides…

…in Zimbabwe: Officers from Zimbabwe’s security agency have warned Catholic priests not to distribute local language versions of a pastoral letter that is highly critical of the deepening political and economic crisis here. Zimbabwe’s bishops’ conference issued a pastoral letter, “God Hears the Cry of the Oppressed,” just before Easter that said Zimbabwe’s crisis is…

Really excellent video from the folks at SQPN – the first in their series, "That Catholic Show." Four minutes of good content, very engagingly and appropriately presented (I like how Jennifer sort of whispers when she’s doing a portion from the interior of the church). I also like how the practices of Eastern Catholics are…

Two appointed. Zadok comments on one: Mons Peter J Elliott, who is the author of Ceremonies of the Modern Roman Rite – probably the sanest and most reasonable practical book on how to celebrate the liturgy of Paul VI. A Confused Papist blogger attended Mass celebrated by Msgr. Elliot earlier this year, and reports, briefly.…

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