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Magister’s got it. I am fairly sure we’ve seen this before this point, somewhere – but just in case you missed it, go take a peek: I maintain that this very Jesus – the Jesus of the Gospels – is an historically sensible and convincing figure. His crucifixion and the impact that he had can…

Yesterday: Generally, public opinion is strong for justice, although some want only vengeance – "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth”. The other extreme rejects this and sees imprisonment primarily as an attempt to rehabilitate the criminal. The traditional Christian teaching is a bit more complicated. Those who believe in God the…

This will be our last edition until Ash Wednesday. Which is not that far away! There were a few poinsettas left on and around the altar, despite the invitation last week to come and take your pick. The regular cantor was absent, so a replacement filled in. We pray for a quick return or that…

In today’s Times(UK), Fordham Philosophy professor Brian Davies, O.P., writes about the God who is – and isn’t – the object of atheists’ ire. Atheists make a great fuss about how God does not exist. This claim, they think, is at odds with what those who believe in God hold. But is it? What kind…

The text of the letter read in all Polish churches today: 5. There is a great task of reconciliation for the Church in Poland, apart from standing in truth before the face of God. We will not change the past, both the glorious, and the one that we are ashamed of. We can include everything,…

A WaPo review of the last volume of C.S. Lewis’ letters (edited by Walter Hooper). Has some interesting tidbits including the hint (provided by Lewis in a letter to Sheldon Vanauken) that Lewis married Joy Davidman so she wouldn’t have to return to the U.S: Although many have impugned the motives of Davidman, the reason…

Virginia priest who stands accused of stealing hundreds of thousands from his parishes…was married. (Civilly, we can assume.) A document included in papers committing Rodis to jail listed him as living with a wife and three children in Fredericksburg, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported Saturday. It wasn’t clear whether Rodis is the children’s father. "It’s not…

Bishop Wielgus speaks: The Roman Catholic prelate who resigned two days after becoming Warsaw’s archbishop denied Saturday that he had concealed his cooperation with the communist-era secret police from Pope Benedict XVI. Nearly a week after Bishop Stanislaw Wielgus stunned Poles by resigning his new post minutes before his formal installation, he issued a statement…

Fr. Dwight Longenecker has a round-up of the best of the UK Catholic blogs.

Yesterday, Poland’s bishops met: The Roman Catholic Church leadership of Poland called Friday for all of the country’s bishops to be investigated for past ties to the secret police. “We will ask a special commission to check the past of all our bishops,” the Council of Bishops’ chief, Jozef Michalski, told reporters in Warsaw after…
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