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Cardinal Keeler injured; retired priest killed: Cardinal William H. Keeler was injured in a car accident Saturday that killed another priest while vacationing about 60 miles outside of Rome, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of Baltimore said. A car struck the passenger side of their vehicle as they drove through the city of Terni, archdiocese…

The Pope’s Regensburg address has been issued, as promised, with footnotes. Via Shouts in the Piazza

Marvelous column by Agnieszka Tennant at Christianity Today on the state of the Russian soul, inspired by her own experiences there Putin’s PR people joined the Beslan parents in a collective sigh of relief last July, when Russian forces killed Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, who planned the siege. But neither ingenious PR firms nor swift…

As we noted last week, the USCCB is sponsoring a meeting in Chicago today – a consulation on sacred music and the documents produced by the American bishops related to it. Here’s the Church Music Association of America’s statement: In preparation for a revision of Music in Catholic Worship (1972, 1983) and Liturgical Music Today…

Rick Garnett of ND and Michael Stokes Paulsen of the U. of Minnesota in the Weekly Standard on the application of stare decisis to the partial-birth abortion ban: The application of Lincoln’s views to Stenberg, and to the Court’s upcoming partial-birth-abortion cases, is clear. Stenberg did not reflect "the unanimous concurrence of the judges," but…

Many of you know that the issue of torture is one that has been absorbing the attention of Mark Shea at his blog, and, for example, in this Crisis article from a few months ago. Several other Catholic writers have taken issue with Shea, and over at Against the Grain, Christopher Blosser is attempting to…

Part 2 of the NYTimes series on religious institutions and government regulation: Many issues raised – lawsuits alleging discrimination because of health issues, sexual harassment and age, as well as unionization issues. Rick Garnett on the series so far: I’ll have more to say, I think, when the series is through.  The first two installments,…

This past weekend up through today, the Pope met with several groups and offered thoughts here and there: Pilgrims from the region of Romagna came on Saturday: During Sunday’s Angelus, he celebrated the family as "missionaries of love." Last night was another Sunday Night at the Movies – this time a film on the life…

…room for one more view? I think so, if it’s Bishop Olmsted of Phoenix. Basilica Press is launching a series of booklets on various issues written by bishops. The first was introduced on Saturday, by Bishop Olmsted – his "Catholics in the Public Square." The full text is here: •  Is it mandatory for Catholics…

Terry Mattingly wants to know…
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