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Scottish composer James MacMillan’s article in a magazine called Open House was reported on a couple of weeks ago – but it’s taken this long for the actual article to find its way online. I’m going to pull quotes from it, but you really should go read the whole thing, bookmark it and pass it…

Cardinal Egan sends a letter: Cardinal Edward Egan, in a letter sent to the priests of New York, appears to blame the recent anonymous criticism of his leadership on dissatisfaction with his handling of sex-abuse cases involving priests. In the letter, dated Oct. 20, Egan writes that stories "told by priests who have been found…

Zenit’s posting a transcript. Part 1 is up, part 2 will be up early this evening, I’d imagine. More Dawkins from the past week or so: Stephen Barr at First Things: As one moves deeper into nature—to levels about which the natural historian and zoologist can tell us nothing—one encounters not less and less form…

The newspaper for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee has published an article on churches in the area that call themselves Catholic: (I’d like to know if any other diocesan papers have done something like this. It strikes me as a useful thing, but I suspect the general attitude is, "We’ll just pretend they don’t exist.") It’s…

Good news: About 150 youth from the dioceses of Charleston, S.C., and Savannah joined in song Sunday for a choral festival and Mass sponsored by Pueri Cantores, the student choral organization of the Catholic church. The singers, ages 7-18, performed works spanning 1,500 years – from Gregorian through the 20th century – at the service…

Today is the memorial of Blessed Severius Boethius, great scholar of (very) Late Antiquity. We know him today mostly because of The Consolation of Philosophy, a work of which this site, the site of a project dedicated to the restoration and digitalization of a 10th century manuscript, says: The Consolation of Philosophy by Anicius Manlius…

Nice to read an article about an athlete who’s passionate about his faith in Christ….as a Catholic. via Closed Cafeteria

Alan Cooperman of the WaPo channels Dr. Teabing in his report on a new exhibit in DC: If 40 percent of Americans refuse to believe that humans evolved from earlier hominids, how many will accept that the book we know as the Bible evolved from earlier texts and was not handed down, in toto, by…

You know how we get all depressed when various non-Catholic and even non-religious entities buy closed Catholic churches? Yeah. Well…I don’t think any of that is as depressing as the story of the new Scientology building in London: The five-storey Italian palazzo building in Queen Victoria Street was originally designed and built in 1866 by…

The perpetual question. The latest: alarm at the declining proportio of RC faculty: The percentage of faculty members who describe themselves as Catholic has dropped to 54 percent from 64 percent two decades ago, so the university is taking steps including the creation of an office to identify possible future Catholic faculty hires. The office…
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