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An interview, via Sandro Magister, with the Archbishop of Seoul: “Over the past ten years the Catholic Church in Korea has gone from less than three million faithful to over five million,” recounts cardinal Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk, who has been archbishop of Seoul since 1998. “And vocations also continue to flourish. By now we are…

The NYtimes picks up the Bishop Gumbleton story – the fact that the 77-year old retired bishop is being transferred out of pastoral ministry. The Archdiocese has its own account and the Archdiocesan Communications Director responds to NCR(eporter) stories on the retirement. McGrath said he had viewed the video clip of Gumbleton at his last…

why? The school Joseph attended last year for PK (a Catholic school) had mostly silent lunch. There was a big traffic light in the lunchroom, and as long as the light was red, they had to be quiet, which for most of lunch, I think. Maybe the last five minutes it would go green and…

We’ve blogged about and referred you to the Siena Institute with some regularity, and co-director Sherry Weddell is a regular and well-informed commenter here and other blogs around the web. The Siena Institute, in case you don’t know, is an apostolate dedicated to helping the laity deepen their relationship with Christ, to grow in awareness…

Thanks to Stephen Dillard for passing this link along – a former intensely anti-Catholic Calvinist…on the road…

…for Heather and Dale Price.

In just a few minutes – at 11:30 Eastern – Pope Benedict will preside at and ecumenical Vespers at St. Paul Outside-the-Walls as a closing to the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. You can watch it live via the Vatican television service or on EWTN. Via Vatican Radio, here’s a backgrounder – about 9…

There’s a huge row about the Catholic Church, adoption, and homosexuals. You’ve probably heard about it. I just have time for a few quick links: The latest: In an unexpected move, the Prime Minister issued a brief statement which all but confirmed that he had bowed to his Cabinet ministers and ruled out giving Catholic…

Well, this is big news, isn’t it? Or am I just out of the loop? An article in NRO by a former Romanian intelligence officer describes the KGB’s efforts to discredit the Church’s authority in Western Europe. He says they focussed on Pius XII, and that the infamous play The Deputy emerged from the cloud…

Today, the Pope met with the Prime Minister of Vietnam. The Vatican statement: This morning, Thursday January 25, 2007, Nguyen Tan Dang, prime minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, was received in audience by the Holy Father Benedict XVI. He subsequently went on to meet Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B., and Archbishop…
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