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Not a joke. But now the town’s peace is being shattered by thousands of British tourists whose behaviour has become so bad that officials have brought in riot police. The decision to deploy officers from the notorious Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité (CRS) came after local gendarmes admitted that they were unable to cope with the…

Yesterday, we lived out my bright idea of going to the far western reaches of Indiana for the day. Well, it was mostly a bright idea, although at 11:30 last night, still a few miles from home, it didn’t quite feel so bright – part of the problem was I hadn’t figured the time change…

Former political prisoner Armando Valladares slams Cuba’s bishops: The Cuban Catholic Bishops Conference (COCC in Spanish) that now urges the faithful to pray for the health of the Red Wolf, has never publicly dared ask for prayers for their decimated flock, including the thousands of political prisoners agonizing in Castro’s prisons and all those unjustly…

Christopher Blosser has a useful post, putting Benedict’s recent comments on war in his recent television interview in context, most specifically in the context of some other remarks he has made on war, including an address on the 60th anniversary of D-Day.

Hoping to get Roman Catholic-Orthodox dialogue going again: The Catholic-Orthodox international dialogue commission is meeting in the Serbian capital of Belgrade Sept. 18-25, in what Pope Benedict XVI has optimistically described as a "new phase in dialogue." That the encounter is taking place at all has been described as a big step forward by Vatican…

Today, during his Angelus address, the pope spoke of St. Bernard of Clairvaux: “The urgency of important and complex missions in the service of the Church” should be harmonized with “solitude” and “quiet”: this call to prayer and contemplation has become a constant in the reflections of Benedict XVI. And he underlined it again when…

…they’re serious. From Saturday’s visit to Indiana Dunes National Shore: (Quite a hike when you’re 21 months old) Oh…and Fr. Stan Fortuna is so amazing, he can even make his bass guitar float! (blogged at Katie’s insistance…)

Gone here with a stop at this on the way back…later!

SIgh. As a chocolatier to the rich and famous, Martucci Angiano has posed with many celebrities — but on Thursday she held in her hand a figure that dazzles her more than any Hollywood star. Workers at Angiano’s gourmet chocolate company, Bodega Chocolates, discovered under a vat a 2-inch-tall column of chocolate drippings that they…

John Allen has interesting interviews posted today – they are excerpted in his column, with full texts elsewhere on the NCR site: First is a conversation with a Peruvian evangelical scholar of religion: What explains the growth of Protestantism in Latin America? One way of explaining it would be the pastoral failure of the Catholic…
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