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A Connecticut paper looks at the recent financial outrages in Darien in the context of another, ten-year old case. (Refresher: In the Darien case, a parish pastor was suspected of financial hijinks by the parish bookkeeper and parochial vicar. They hired a private investigator, after the diocese did nothing. The PI revealed much. The parochial…

Article from the Nashville Tennessean about a psychologist who investigates: Mario Martinez follows the trail of blood to one of the biggest mysteries in religion — the human capacity to produce stigmata, the "wounds of Christ" on the hands, feet and forehead. Martinez is a Nashville-based clinical psychologist who has traveled the world investigating stigmata…

Christopher Blosser has a round-up of more commentary, to add to American Papist’s. Julie D. has a short list of bloggers from the Middle East whom she regularly reads.

Here’s a review, in Commonweal, of Jon Hassler’s most recent novel. Religion has become more a background than foreground element in his fiction since North of Hope (1990), in some ways his best and most Catholic novel. Yet Hassler has asserted that Catholicism gives a sense of order and perspective to the world; and without…
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