Inspiration Faith & Prayer Health & Wellness Entertainment Love & Family
Newsletters Special Offers

Via Media

I shut down comments, not because of anything anyone said, but because I was having serious email, and by extension, web page and Flickr problems, which then became a problem with another service. Most of it’s fixed, although this will probably speed my move to another email service, which I’ve needed to do for a…

My Yahoo mail is broken. I can’t get in at all, which concerns me. So…don’t write to me!

…who’s the master of them? Benedict, speaking to those in charge of Vatican security, ends up for something for all of us: The Holy Father concluded with a reflection which, he said, applies to us all: "we are called to be the guardians of our fellows. The Lord will call us to account for the…

My daughter is trying to find a new speech to memorize for speech team competition. I told her she should do the Regensburg address. She said it has to be a speech given by a woman. Details, details….

Here’s the full press release on Bishop Trautman’s speech to the Catholic Academy of Liturgy. It’s still not the exact text of the speech, but it’s a press release summarizing it from the group to which he spoke, so I think we can trust it. There is more reaction to this speech today. First, Michael…

6 Today there was a press conference at the Vatican concerning the Pope’s May 2007 visit. From VIS: Fr. Gutierrez affirmed that the conference – which will have as its theme "Disciples and missionaries in Jesus Christ, that in Him our peoples may have life (‘I am the way and the truth and the life’)"…

Check out the new Rome Reports service. Rome Reports is a television news service – some of you might have seen their 30-minute weekly programs on EWTN.  They’ve started a streaming video service online, free and available to anyone with the right connection. Go here to get going. The story on the Pope’s visit to…

Take a look at this new title from Sheed and Ward: The Best American Catholic Short Stories: A Sheed & Ward Collection. The table of contents: "Old Red" Caroline Gordon "The Presence" Caroline Gordon "The Peach Stone" Paul Horgan "Lions, Harts, Leaping Does" J.F. Powers "The Devil in the Desert" Paul Horgan "Emmanuele, Emmanuele" Caroline…

Huge embezzlement case in Richmond: An embezzlement case in which a priest is accused of stealing more than $600,000 from two parishes has no comparison in recent memory, a lawyer for the Catholic Diocese of Richmond said. "We’ve had people take a few hundred bucks out of the plate, but nothing of this magnitude," attorney…

The St. Louis paper publishes a long article on a new plan from the Archdiocese to centralize parish finances and bookkeeping. Pros and cons offered – mostly pros, I’d add – but frustratingly, no actual details as to how this plan would work. I just don’t get it. I mean, that’s the first question that…
archives most recent
search this blog
More from Beliefnet and our partners