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For now – I mean for now  – we’re going to ignore the whole Amazing Technicolor Vestments issue. And the Pikachu ball. (?!) And we’ll meditate on the homily. Okay? (Remember, this is Saturday’s outdoor Mass, the feast of the Nativity of Mary.) “To gaze upon Christ” is the motto of this day. For one…

One of the Pope’s last activities today in Austria was a visit to the Heiligenkreuz Abbey – the oldest continuously active Cistercian Abbey in the world. Here’s the official site in English. (Cistercians are a reformed, more severe observance of the Benedictine Rule, originated in the 11th century at the Abbey of Cîteaux. Trappists are…

One more post bouncing off current trends in American evangelicalism. Certainly, all religious movements have their…tendencies. Some of you might remember a post I wrote on the old blog about how everything, in the end will go haywire, so the task of institutions is to try to minimize that possibility, but recognizing its inevitability and trying to insure…

I’ve always been interested in non-mainline American Protestantism (and a bit in mainline Protestantism as well, of course) simply because I’m interested in religion, period, particularly from an historical and political persepective. In particular, over the past forty years or so, Catholicism has interacted with this type of Christianity (evangelicalism in its broadest sense) and…
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