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Ugandan ceasefire brokered by Sant’Egidio Community Mario Giro, a spokesman for St. Egidio, told Vatican Radio that the agreement does not end the conflict in Uganda, but it is a critical first step. "The most difficult thing was to begin," he said, and the ceasefire is a bid to overcome "20 years of mistrust." Now,…

One of the odd and (I think) quite interesting about the rise of Catholic Blogs and the Catholic Internets in general is the awareness of the doings of various dioceses and even parishes – and the high interest in such doings by people who don’t even live there and will never even visit. We know…

This is the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation on the Gulf Coast, closely followed by Hurricane Rita. CNS has several recent stories: The secondary disaster of trying to get promised government funds for school repair Archbishop Hughes remembers An interview with the staff of the NO Archdiocesan paper The Biloxii Diocese homepage The New…

The quite interesting story of the development (over many decades) of the HPV vaccine: But each step forward to those techniques was a triumph of hard science over the pseudoscientific myths that for centuries surrounded the disease. The first was posited by a doctor in Florence in 1842. He noticed that prostitutes and married women…

Please read Charlotte Allen on Plan B, George Bush and what we can expect down the road- in short order. Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time that Bush has blown off pro-lifers in an effort to make some sort of compromise with their opponents on life issues. Almost exactly five years ago, in August 2001,…

On the plane, among other things, I read Christopher Hitchens’ review of several recent Kennedy-related books. As per usual, only a measly two paragraphs are online, but if you can dig it up, do read (there’s more in the issue, of course, and I’ve yet to crack the Fallows’ article on why he says we’ve…

Son #1 calls to inform me of two interesting points of his day: 1) He decided to go to noon daily Mass at the Cathedral, interesting since I don’t think he knew before he went that it was St. Augustine’s feast day – St. Augustine being kind of important to him because a history course…

Stephen Barr offers a brief intro at First Things. An extremely important effect in physics called the “diffraction” of light was discovered by Fr. Francesco Grimaldi in the seventeenth century (something no physics textbook that I have ever seen bothers to mention, so that few scientists are aware of it). One of the top biologists…

Last week’s supposedly non-destructive embryonic stem-cell research breakthrough has, in the course of a few days, been exposed as not such a breakthrough and rather destructive after all. For a summary, go to Wesley Smith’s blog – Smith commends the Economist today for getting the story right: Wonder of wonder, miracle of miracles: Proving that…

What a mess of a diocese – those poor people, from Bishop Ziemann to the present mess – the question of whether Bishop Walsh purposefully allowed an accused priest time to flee the country – news has been percolating on this all summer and now the Bishop Accountability site brings it all together (including Bishop…
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