I received a very nice note from the sister who is the co-founder of Vietnam Dream for Success, one of the charities we mentioned in our "Almsgiving" post last month. One of you sent a donation and mentioned that you’d seen the group mentioned here. From the note: Since we are a new non-profit organization,…

In thinking about the Exhortation and matters liturgical this week, considering all of that along with the hopes many have for a forthcoming Motu Proprio and the dynamic of how all of this works out on the ground, I formulated an opinion on what, I think, is missing from Rome on this. Yeah, I did…

..for those keeping their eyes on the Anglican situation, things just got hotter as the Very Rev. Mark Lawrence’s election as Bishop of South Carolina didn’t happen. I use the highly precise "didn’t happen" because it appears that even though the votes for consent were there, certain irregularities prompted the Presiding Bishop Jefferts Schori to…

Full text isn’t out, but John Allen reports on this morning’s homily from the Preacher of the Papal Household, Capuchin Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa: Friedrich Nietzsche espoused a pagan lust for power “irreducibly” opposed to Christian non-violence, the Preacher of the Papal Household told the pope this morning, and it’s difficult not to see a connection…

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