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CNS runs a story today that looks back: On a melancholy bend in France’s Atlantic coast, a narrow causeway leads across choppy gray-green waters to a low-lying deserted island. Ile Madame, in the River Charente estuary, is not mentioned in guidebooks, and few tourists venture here. For local Catholics, though, it remains a symbol of…

The Irish bishops have been meeting with the Pope for their ad limina visits this week. The Irish church has, of course, been wrenched from its pedestal in Irish culture over the past 3 decades, not just because of the increasingly secularization of Irish society, but because of the impact of sexual abuse claims, as…

This week, many French bishops have made their displeasure at any impending "freeing" of the Tridentine Mass or rapprochement with the SSPX known – in the French press and in Rome, with the Pope himself. (And remember, these are two separate issues. There is no necessary connection between the first and the second at all,…

From the Tablet: Fr Robert McCulloch, 60, an Australian Columban missionary in Hyderabad, told The Tablet that laws had created a culture of intimidation. " There’s a policy of religious domination. A group of [Muslim] fundamentalists came to the door of a missionary nun, trying to put a copy of the Qur’an into her hands…

At the end of November, as we all know, Pope Benedict will travel to Turkey. The primary purpose of the visit is meetings with Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew and other religious leaders, but interest in the reaction of the Muslim population to the Pope’s presence will, of course, be high. Aid to the Church in Need…

Is this the most exhausting off-year election ever? Or is it simply because the pace of information just continues to speed up and the amount of it we can access just multiplies. I’m just an observer,  and it wears me out as I gingerly dip a toe in the waters of news and punditry every…

This week in Rome, military ordinaries have gathered this week for a conference. Archbishop O’Brien, head of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services spoke: While a Catholic military chaplain’s ministry always will center on celebrating the sacraments — in a base chapel or a field tent — he also is called to be "an…

Fr. Jay Toborowsky has a great new blog – I’d point you to the posts on a NYTimes article from today about renovating the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, as well as his thoughts after a funeral for two young people. Jimmy Akin is speaking at GodBlog06 out in CA at Biola University, and…

I’ve pulled this from the comments – from Fr. Elijah, truly worth a post of its own, as I think you will agree: As a boy training for serving at the altar of God Who gives joy to my youth (youthful joy) and learning the ancient Latin responses I was taught that these responses USED…

Bishop Blair of Toledo has a column clarifying misunderstandings about the focus of All Souls’ Day, November and Catholic funerals. It is this last category, the souls in purgatory, who are the special focus of the month of November. Except for those dead whose presence in heaven is confirmed by miracles and the church’s canonization,…
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