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The Pope is speaking to the group with the President of Religoius Affairs. I mention it because he’s speaking in ENGLISH and you can watch and listen and not have to wait days for a translation…. The Vatican television link. (In between events, they either show bars or the St. Peter’s webcam.) And now –…

The American Papist saw it – But now a couple of the flaws (or more softly, insufficiencies) I found. The movie seems undecided which way it wants to go. On the one hand it wants the deep drama associated with presenting one of the most incredible events in human history, on the other hand the…

At First Things, Wesley Smith compares attitudes: Simon Barnes’ towards his Downs Syndrome son (blogged here last week) and Peter Singer’s toward..a lot of people. What a stark difference between the attitudes of these two men toward the weakest and most vulnerable among us, a difference that can be described literally as the distinction between…

Keep your eye on American Papist and Papa Ratzinger Forum So far, the Pope has met with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (in which he voiced his support for Turkey’s entrance into the EU) at the airport, visited the tomb of Ataturk, and met with the Turkish president. Other meetings with government officials to…

Complete tables of contents here. Note – these are hardcover books, and very nicely designed. They’re also different from most other saints books in that they are thematically arranged, rather than simply chronologically or alphabetically. The Heroes book includes, besides stories of individuals, stories of important events/periods in the Church’s history.

Perhaps you saw this on Drudge: A public Christmas festival is no place for the Christmas story, the city says. Officials have asked organizers of a downtown Christmas festival, the German Christkindlmarket, to reconsider using a movie studio as a sponsor because it is worried ads for its film "The Nativity Story" might offend non-Christians.…

Ian of the excellent Catholic bookstore Aquinas and More has a blog, Musings from a Catholic Bookstore. He also has an intriguing new project that will require a lot of assistance – a wiki-type page for review of Catechetical materials: Catholic Catechetical Review. His intro: Thank you for visiting the Catholic Catechetical Review Wiki. This…

Over at TLM, Matthew has posted on proposed renovations to St. Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney the see of Cardinal Pell. He’s concerned: The design has been undertaken at breakneck speed, to spruce up the church for the arrival of the Vicar of Christ.  (WYD, 2008) Still, this does not mediate the lesser quality of the…

Deep breath. In which I will attempt to clean out my email box. Don’t take the grouping of these posts in one spot as an indication of their lack of importance or interest. Not so. Enjoy. Meep has thoughts on Darwinism at her LiveJournal. Kyle passes on video of a painful Gospel procession. The Episcopal…

John Allen reports: Aboard the Alitalia Airbus A-321, Benedict responded to three questions which had been collected from journalists in advance. The pope did not use notes, and appeared to speak extemporaneously. He apologized at the end for not having time for a full press conference. Asked to address Turkey’s European aspirations, Benedict did not…
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