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Good news from Peru: As pastor of Our Lady of the Assumption Parish, which sits more than two miles high on a windswept Andean plain, Maryknoll Father Edmund Cookson has spent decades fighting malnutrition among impoverished farm families. He has worked to improve herds of llamas, distributed hens and guinea pigs, and touted the nutritional…

We talk about catechesis a lot here, and are fairly conversant in what’s happening. Over the past ten years or so, the US bishops have, on paper, taken a more pro-active role in textbook content. There is an Ad Hoc Committee to Oversee the use of the Catecism that is officially charged with this responsiblity.…

Lots of good stuff over at the Shrine of the Holy Whapping these days – Drew has some excellent historical posts, including a lengthy quote from Ratzinger on Charles Borromeo and true reform, and several really interesting architectural posts from Matthew. Not to speak of a caption contest with hysterically funny responses. Related: A FAQ…

There’s an article in a recent issue of Newsweek about a small movement among some Protestants that is totally, absolutely against any kind of contraception or even fertility awareness and conscious birth spacing. Mollie at Get Religion blogs on the piece and on another on the same subject in the Nation From the Newsweek article:…

Sandro Magister very helpfully pulls together what the Pope has said recently to Swiss and German bishops, detecting a theme: In the second of his two addresses to the Swiss bishops on their “ad limina” visit, Benedict XVI replied to what is, perhaps, the objection most commonly directed against the pope and the Church hierarchy…

Thoughts from Archbishop Rowan Williams: The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has reopened the debate on women priests by suggesting that the Anglican Church may one day "think again" about the issue. Speaking a week before his first official audience with Pope Benedict XVI in Rome, Dr Williams made clear that he remained a…

Here. Do you want to know what’s wrong with catechesis in the Church in these United States? I’ve got it for you, in a nutshell. From one of the mainstream religion (school) series – I can’t remember which publisher it is, and the take-home sheets don’t have a title on the page bottoms. Before we…

…I’d know something. Like: Silence=trouble. I guess I need a refresher course. I think I just got it.

From CNS: Evidence of an alleged miraculous cure in the Archdiocese of Boston attributed to the intercession of Cardinal John Henry Newman has been sent to the Congregation for Saints’ Causes in Rome. The Roman postulator of the cause, Andrea Ambrosi, was assigned by the archdiocesan tribunal in Boston to be the official carrier of…

Benedict, today: At the end of today’s general audience, the Pope recalled the fact that today is the liturgical feast of St. Albert the Great, "who made ceaseless efforts to establish peace among the peoples of his time," he said, "May his example," the Holy Father continued, "stimulate you, dear young people, to work for…
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