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Today, the Pope addressed – in English – a meeting of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences There is one final reflection that the subject of your Assembly can suggest to us today. As some of the papers presented in the last few days have emphasized, the scientific method itself, in its gathering of data and…

John Allen spoke in the Dallas area this weekend – anyone see him? His talk at the University of Dallas was on Benedict and Islam: The heart of my argument in that lecture is that Pope Benedict XVI may well be the last, best hope for serious dialogue between the West and the Islamic world,…

The political news is going full throttle, of course, and I just can’t keep up. Besides – why not just wait until we know what happened, and expend our analytical energy there? There’s a nice wrap-up of Amendment 2 blogging over at KC Catholic. Pro-Life Blogs is keeping up Sheila Liaugminas provides great analysis, as…

I’d been looking forward to the film version of PD James’ novel about the end of fertility – it’s 2027, and no babies have been born, no pregnancies have occured in 18 years, and no one knows why. The novel is most powerful in its examination, via their absence, of the importance of children. Well,…

The liturgiciblogosphere has been lurching back and forth over the past few days, attempting to follow the story of Whatever Is Coming. Cardinal Ricard, Archbishop of Bourdeaux and president of the French bishops’ conference, as well as a member of the Ecclesia Dei commission (charged with overseeing the implementation of the Indult and other related…

Just a myth: We’ll take care of it – if you only let us: ONE of Britain’s royal medical colleges is calling on the health profession to consider permitting the euthanasia of seriously disabled newborn babies. The proposal by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology is a reaction to the number of such children…

This is great – a photographer’s site on which he has posted several panoramic tours of, among things, several churches in the Midwest, mostly in the Cincinnati/Covington area, but also including the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis and the Trappist Abbey at Gethsemane. More of the same type of thing here, of Eurpean churches Via…

This past weekend, Marcus Grodi’s Coming Home Network sponsored a "deep in history" conference in Columbus, OH, focusing on the English Reformation. It sounds like an excellent conference. Jay Anderson has three posts on the conference on his blog, including a photo of him, Rich Leonardi and Joanna Bogle – and a lovely young lady…

I think so – around these parts, Into the Woods seems to be the show of choice. Katie’s school just finished up their performance, a local middle school did the Broadway Junior version, the private non-religious high school in town did it this past weekend too, and try-outs for the Fort Wayne Civic production are…

The  wedding of British royals in the Vatican environs ….on Guy Fawkes weekend. The Queen officially gave her go-ahead at a Privy Council meeting in October, opening the way for a register office ceremony in London that took place two weeks ago. This was the first time since the royal marriages act in the 18th…
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