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From the Guardian, on efforts to rebirth Classical paganism in Greece: Armed with white doves, Peppa, a former advertising executive, was not going to hold back – even if it meant defying the furious Greek officials and riot police gathered at the second-century temple’s gates, unwilling to stop the ceremony for fear of provoking a…

A column from the Boston Pilot, the Archdiocesan paper: When I go running at dawn on a cold winter morning along the Charles River, even those passers-by who would never join me at least appreciate the ideal that motivates me. Yet when I stroll through Harvard Square with five of my children, I encounter only…

Well, my years-old exercise radio finally broke. It fell off my arm, crashed onto the track and the volume button popped off into some corner. No manner of poking and prodding will make the volume work without the dial. So. I went ahead and bought an mp3 player with an FM receiver. So now…download fever!…

This days off/school delays are really messing with my head. No school yesterday (cold, serious bus problems for the public school buses. And since the Catholic schools just follow the public school decisions…no school for them either.) and a 2-hour delay today. So of course I forgot it was Wednesday, which means GA day in…

John Allen on some recent appointments: The last two major appointments to the Roman Curia from Benedict XVI went to cardinals from the South: Cardinal Ivan Dias of Bombay, named in May to head the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, and Cardinal Claudio Hummes of São Paulo, Brazil, appointed in October as prefect of…

As is the case every time she opens her mouth to a journalist, much discussion about the recent USA today profile of Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church. Well, amid the theological curiosities, what struck me most was this very weird moment, which comes, not from Shori, but from the reporter:…

Archbishop Gomez of San Antonio, in a recent address to the Conference of the New Evangelization of America (pdf format) It’s an important read, After laying out the Catholic/Christian roots of the Americas, the contemporary obstacles to evangelization, he proceeds to offer a model: A Snapshot From New Mexico, February 1634 As I see it,…

Perhaps those of us involved in youth ministry and catechesis might print out Benedict’s message for World Youth Day (not ’08 in Australia, but diocesan-led celebrations on April 1.) and share: the focus is love. Is it possible to love? Everybody feels the longing to love and to be loved. Yet, how difficult it is…

A snippet from a CNS story about ecumenism, centered on observations by Bishop Brian Farrell of the secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity: He said that when Pope Benedict visited Turkey last fall he had dinner with members of the country’s small Catholic community at the Vatican nunciature. During the dinner someone…

Pope to visit: Benedict XVI plans to visit the Casal del Marmo detention center for minors in Rome. News of the upcoming March 18 visit was announced today by Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Vatican press office. It will be Benedict XVI’s first visit to a prison since his papal election. Thus he…
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