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Vatican won’t be signing a UN document on the disabled: Made public today was a talk delivered by Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Holy See permanent observer to the United Nations in New York, concerning a Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, approved by the U.N. General Assembly on December 13, 2006 and due to…

Love still sells: It’s been just over a year since its release, yet Pope Benedict XVI’s first Encyclical letter continues to be a best seller.  According to the Rome-based ANSA news agency the Pontiff’s profound discussion of human and divine love is proving to be one of the most commercially successful doctrinal tracts ever written…

As the Primates’ meeting in Dar es Salaam approaches, a couple of links (beside the usual) that might be helpful in unpacking the journey these folks have been on: A timeline of crucial events leading up to this point. Although a few things have developed since this post (the Diocese of Virginia filing a lawsuit…

Edward Oakes at First Things about playing fast and loose with terminology: First of all, I wish to stress that I am not trying to ban the word heresy by Catholics when speaking of Protestants out of some wishy-washy ecumenical latitudinarianism, as if dogmas are merely matters of opinion without objective truth value of their…

The Archdiocese of Toronto has its new Archbishop, Thomas Collins, installed yesterday. That link takes you to the Archdiocesan page, with links to a lot of things, including video of the Mass and his homily. It’s quite beautiful, actually, using the image of the Heavenly City, the New Jerusalem as the theme (Archbishop Collins is…

The Pope, in today’s General Audience: Saints also disagreed among themselves and holiness does not imply not making mistakes, but rather is one’s capacity to convert and repent, to start all over, as the lives of some of Saint Paul’s collaborators show, i.e. people who devoted their lives to spreading the Gospel. Before 6,000 people…

Of interest: Fr. Dwight Longenecker has started providing podcasts of his homilies A longtime commentor here, John Bianco, died suddenly at the age of 32. Pray for him and his fiancee. Check out the new blog from the PhatMass guy, PhatCatholic Apologetics. Also check out Quoholeth – a blog from a Catholic man who describes…

A Quebec village lays out some ground rules: A sign at the entrance of this rural Quebec town says: Herouxville welcomes you. Unless, that is, you plan on stoning a woman to death, sending your kids to school with a kirpan or covering your face other than on Halloween. The town council of Herouxville, a…

Nice story about a newly-professed Poor Clare: Sister Ishmael describes her feelings about her decision as a "deep and abiding" joy. "I had a full life. I was happy with what I was doing," she said. "When God gives the call, he also gives that exuberant joy that makes you want to follow him. "I…

An odd story. We will not say nuns on the run. We will not say nuns on the run: A group of Greek nuns abandoned their convent and went into hiding after running up debts of more than 600,000 euros (396,000 pounds) from a knitting business that went bust, authorities said on Tuesday. The 55…
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