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Mike Aquilina points us to a helpful essay by David Scott on the Assumption, specifically how a re-engagement with early Christian history puts more recent anti-Assumption polemics in persepective. On November 1, 1950, Pope Pius XII declared a new dogma of the Catholic Church—a truth revealed by God to be believed by the faithful: that…

Carey, Ohio – not to far from here – is the site of Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation and a large celebration of the Feast of the Assumption. Last year, the procession for the feast was anything but peaceful, as extreme fundamentalist Christians came to mix it up with the Catholics. Intrepid reporter and…

The (Anglican) Bishop of Rochester on the current situation: So how does this dual psychology – of victimhood, but also the desire for domination – come to infect so many young Muslims in Britain? When I was here in the early 1970s, the practice of Islam was dominated by a kind of default Sufism or…

A quite interesting piece from Christian Century on 6 Protestant theologian/ministers who have entered the Catholic Church recently Unlike the other converts, Gerald Schlabach does not come from a magisterial Protestant tradition of state churches—though some other Anabaptists, like Yoder, have argued that the Mennonites also pursue a catholic (small "c") vision of the church.…
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