Lots of good stuff over at the Shrine of the Holy Whapping these days – Drew has some excellent historical posts, including a lengthy quote from Ratzinger on Charles Borromeo and true reform, and several really interesting architectural posts from Matthew. Not to speak of a caption contest with hysterically funny responses. Related: A FAQ…

There’s an article in a recent issue of Newsweek about a small movement among some Protestants that is totally, absolutely against any kind of contraception or even fertility awareness and conscious birth spacing. Mollie at Get Religion blogs on the piece and on another on the same subject in the Nation From the Newsweek article:…

Sandro Magister very helpfully pulls together what the Pope has said recently to Swiss and German bishops, detecting a theme: In the second of his two addresses to the Swiss bishops on their “ad limina” visit, Benedict XVI replied to what is, perhaps, the objection most commonly directed against the pope and the Church hierarchy…

Thoughts from Archbishop Rowan Williams: The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has reopened the debate on women priests by suggesting that the Anglican Church may one day "think again" about the issue. Speaking a week before his first official audience with Pope Benedict XVI in Rome, Dr Williams made clear that he remained a…

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