David’s Scott article on the dogma. He does an excellent job of setting the historical context. explaining the conflicts over the idea among theologians through history, and so on: One hundred and fifty years later, the dogma of the Immaculate Conception can be understood even more clearly as the Church’s prophetic response to the modern…

Reported elsewhere throughout the week, but a good summary in the Telegraph today: The tomb of St Paul the Apostle has been found under one of Rome’s largest churches and the stone coffin will shortly be raised to the surface to allow pilgrims to see it. The remains of St Paul, one of the Christian…

We blogged an earlier review/description of the new collection of Graham Greene writings that had originally appeared in The Tablet. But we’ve got to blog this one, too – by David Lodge. The review also treats another new book on Greene, although that’s not made clear in the beginning. Anyway: In the eyes of many…

Cardinal Bertone, in an interview with the Italian bishops’ publication L’Avvenire, as reported by John Allen. (got it?) Finally, Cardinale asked Bertone about commentaries on Benedict’s trip from conservative European intellectuals known as “devout atheists,” who are not religious believers but who nevertheless support parts of the moral and social message of the Catholic Church.…

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