…visit Louis Pasteur’s crypt. Fascinating post from Matthew at Holy Whapping: The scientist’s burial site is of great interest to both to those seeking a place of pilgrimage and a forgotten gem of Catholic architecture. I have never been there myself but was greatly struck by a number of photographs I recently came across. The…

Gashwin Gomes, over in India, can read this blog, but can’t post a comment. Here’s his comment on the post below about catechesis and Biblical criticism: When the General Directory for Catechesis came out (the one from the Vatican, in, 1997 I think it was), I read through it eagerly, and one of the things…

The First Things blog is doing something different for the month of August – members of their board are contributing posts and there’s a dialogue between Frederica Mathews-Greene, Ross Douthat and Jody Bottum on war matters, primarily on applying the Just War criterea to the Israel-Lebanon conflict. Former Boston mayor and (also former) Ambassador to…

From CNS: Dutch Cardinal Johannes Willebrands, a driving force behind improved Catholic relations with other Christians and with Jews, died in Denekamp, Netherlands, Aug. 2 at the age of 96. Pope Benedict XVI offered his prayers for the late cardinal, saying he humbly served Christ and worked tirelessly to fulfill Christ’s will that all his…

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