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Photo Source Coverage Central – at the Archdiocese of Indy newspaper blog – many links to stories and other sources for coverage, including a blog from the Sisters of Providence. Bios of the beatified – scroll down to October.

Do go read Rich Leonardi’s Catholic Exchange piece on the fate of the parish church in which his father grew up –  Ss. Peter and Paul in Rochester. It is the story of the American church, and I do think Rich’s essay should be copied off and put on the tables in front of the…

Over at New Liturgical Movement, Shawn Tribe presents a useful analysis of possibilities – he carefully lays out various models of "freeing" the Tridentine Rite and then looks at what Benedict has said about these issues and then tries to draw some lines

The heart of St. John Vianney – first in New York 10,000 came during that time: More than 10,000 people came to see the heart of St. John Vianney during the five days it spent at a Long Island church, including the closing Mass yesterday, officials said. Catholics throughout the metropolitan area flocked to the…

Beheaded Some 500 people attended yesterday the funeral of Fr Paulos Eskandar at Mosul’s Syrian-Orthodox St Ephrem Church. Father Eskandar, who was abducted on Monday, was founded beheaded some time later. The clergyman’s relatives confirmed that his captors had demanded the payment of a US$ 350,000 ransom and that his church apologise for the Pope’s…

Benedict met with bishops of Zambia today, present for their ad limina visit. His words to them, delivered in English: The light of holiness that shines forth in those who have discovered this treasure is enkindled at the moment of baptism. In baptism Christ liberates the believer from the dominion of sin, freeing him from…

Edward Pentin at NCR(egister) on Cardinal Bertone and the Secretariat of State: Edward Pentin at NCR(egister) on Cardinal Bertone and the Secretariat of State: Cardinal Bertone, a jurist rather than a Vatican diplomat, is reportedly relying extensively on the expertise of his diplomatically trained assistants in framing diplomatic policy and is not expected to take…

Oh, I see that the new more bloggy John Allen page is up at NCR(eporter) and he’s been posting items all week – which means that the Friday column is much shorter – this week a look at Benedict and Islam. Highlights from the week: What’s going on with saints: In terms of cases involving…

Alan Cooperman does a good job on the story. Bonus: Hardly any of the usual suspects used as voices in the piece. And for that we are deeply grateful. Pope Benedict XVI has drafted a document allowing wider use of the Tridentine Mass, the Latin rite that was largely replaced in the 1960s by Masses…

….from the emailbox and elsewhere: An interesting speaker at Loyola of Chicago Judith Arcana was recently invited by the Loyola University Chicago Women’s Studies Department to be a guest lecturer in a bioethics class (Bioethics 395: The Ethics of Human Reproduction), and to do a performance of her own work. Who is Judith Arcana, you…
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