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As Drudge blasted yesterday, the INS raided several meat-packing plants across the country yesterday in an illegal immigrant search. The greatest impact was in Colorado. Employers not sanctioned. A reader from Colorado notes the timing  – Our Lady of Guadalupe. This article makes the connection and the reader adds: Even in my mostly-white parish, a…

But at least New Orleans has a new auxiliary! Il Papa ha nominato Vescovo Ausiliare dell’arcidiocesi di New Orleans (U.S.A.) il Rev.do Shelton Joseph Fabre, del clero della diocesi di Baton Rouge, finora Parroco della Sacred Heart Parish a Baton Rouge, assegnandogli la sede titolare vescovile di Pudenziana. Born in New Road, Louisiana in 1963,…

The Pope’s final address to the Swiss bishops. Was this released before in English? I’m not sure,, although I do remember the last section about the relationship of different aspects of the moral life, but this English translation just appeared on ZENIT tonight.  Perhaps there’s a reason we need to look at it again. In…

Trying to work things out: No Catholic parish property or school will be sold or encumbered in a far-reaching bankruptcy reorganization of the Archdiocese of Portland announced Monday that will settle as many as 170 legal claims by victims of sexual abuse by priests. The reorganization will resolve the nation’s first bankruptcy involving a Roman…

…we just run in circles here. An English priest gets rid of his: A priest from the Diocese of East Anglia, England, has decided to replace a live Nativity scene for a replica of the wall encircling Bethlehem in protest of the Israeli separation barrier. Each year hundreds of people come to the Sacred Heart…

A decent piece from the Guardian on the dearth of plays about Jesus. Theatrical plays, not pageants, although that’s the inspiriation. Given that most of our leading playwrights, directors and actors have at some point appeared in a Nativity play during their formative years, it’s surprising more of them haven’t been drawn to tell the…

the Nashville-based Protestant publisher has been going through some changes lately. First, a few months ago, they discontinued the use of separate imprints within the company. And then, Publishers’ Weekly reported that Nelson was going to start working in adherence to the Nicene Creed and affirmation of a Scripture verse (Philippians 4:8) into their contracts.…

Daniel Radosh writes in The New Yorker about Bible sales – focusing on the Protestant market, and mostly on Thomas Nelson. To those who follow publishing, there’s nothing much new – the Bible continues to be the best-selling book in the US every year, which shouldn’t be surprising, but actually is, considering that most people…

In our probably fruitless war against the Midwest Winter Sludge, Katie and I are trying to go to the YMCA as often as possible. It’s the first year in many that she’s not played a sport during this time of year, so I have to find a way to keep her active. Me, too. When…

At San Juan Capistrano: Susan Hibbert wanted to light a candle and say a prayer Sunday at the Mission San Juan Capistrano’s Serra Chapel for her husband, a U.S. Army medic soon to be deployed in Iraq. But she was stunned when at the ticket window she was asked to pony up $7, the same…
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