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Here’s a helpful overview by John Allen of emerging relations between various left-leaning Latin American political leaders and the Church in their respective countries. Latin American Catholicism, observers say, has long been sharply divided between a traditionalist wing and social progressives, and in some cases clashes between the bishops and Latin America’s new crop of…

German soccer star credits Benedict: German soccer legend Franz Beckenbauer has told the Munich newspaper Abendzeitung that his October 2005 meeting with Pope Benedict XVI (bio – news) was “the most important experience” of his life. As chairman of the German committee organizing the 2006 World Cup competition, Beckenbauer met with the Holy Father at…

On PBS Frontline tonight in most parts of the country, a documentary on one case of sexual abuse by a cleric: The film is florid in style — porcelain figurines crushed in a vice, Communion wafers dropped into darkened water and fizzing like Alka-Seltzer — but Mr. Cultrera remains understated and calm throughout. When he…

I wouldn’t exactly call it a rut. I’d call it…well, maybe a rut. Although it was not an unpleasant, totally unproductive rut. But I needed to make a little change in how I structure my day – there’s a lot of work looming over the next few months, and I need to get some creative…

Fr. Al Kimel is going to be reading through Paul’s Letter to the Romans…it will be instructive to read along with him. Justification has been an important subject of the Pontificator blog, and here, Fr. Kimel will be looking at one of the primary texts for the doctrine and disputes, in the light of some…

Yesterday was the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, and Pope Benedict took that as his theme in the Angelus: For Benedict XVI we must first look at this phenomenon in religious terms and remember the Holy Family, “icon of all families, because it reflects the image of God that is held in the heart…

Also from CCD, the story of a rescue: As several prayer warriors kneeled praying the Holy Rosary, two sidewalk counselors and I were able to speak to a young couple that had taken a Greyhound Bus from the Mexican border town of Mexicali to San Diego intent on aborting their 13-week-old baby. The young man…

This thread is for those who would like to discuss the position of Catholics vis-a-vis issues like capital punishment and war – particularly the current War in Iraq – and their faith, particularly Catholics in decision-making positions.

The California Catholic Daily reports on a conversation with Archbishop Wuerl: Archbishop Donald Wuerl of Washington, D.C., who has come under fire for failing to speak out against Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s attendance Jan. 3 at a Mass at her alma mater, Trinity University, came to San Diego’s Kona Kai Resort the weekend…

AsiaNews with a story on what was initially reported a couple of weeks ago – the move of the Chaldean seminary in Iraq from Baghdad to Ankawa, in Kurdistan. Erbil’s Chaldean bishop, Mgr Rabban al-Qas, told AsiaNews that the doors to the Chaldean Major Seminary and Babel College, Iraq’s only theological faculty run by the…
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