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It is also the memorial of St. Helena, mother of Constantine, finder of the True Cross. Mike Aquilina has a post up with a link to his review of Waugh’s novel about her: People often ask me the best way to enter imaginatively into the world of the Fathers. I can’t think of a more…

Many have blogged about the BBC presenter’s proclamations this week about burdens – when she becomes a burden, she’ll kill herself, and she’s double mad that, after getting her independence and stuff, she’s having to care for aging parents. Aimee Milburn, the fine blogger at Historical Christian, discusses the mindset behind this kind of talk.…

By Christine Gardner of Wheaton, in today’s WSJ: Some evangelicals charge that the Pill has contributed to the moral breakdown of society; perhaps, but evangelicals’ embrace of the contraception culture has not helped. It may have made Christianity sexier to potential adherents but diminished a public understanding of marriage in the process. For evangelicals, this…

In the NYSun today, an article about a clothing chain owned by Christians, on whose bags are printed a Scripture citation is discreetly displayed: Shoppers interviewed this week said that they had no idea about the John 3:16 on the bottom of their shopping bags. "Jesus wore clothes," a 22-year-old from Brooklyn, Jason Schultz, said…

Today is the "optional memorial" of St. Jeanne (or Jane) de Chantal, founder, along with St. Francis de Sales of the Visitation Sisters. (Her feast day is confusing. It used to be August 21. Then, with the calendar revision, it was changed to December 12. Which, in the U.S. is celebrated as the Feast of…

From the marvelous Fr. Powell, O.P. at the U. of Dallas on the Assumption: (Via Bill Cork) If we are not witnessing to the Word, giving testimony to the power of Christ’s love and mercy, then what are we witnessing to? What is it that sits on your heart, dwells at the center of your…

The Cranky Prof visited the DaDa exhibit at the MoMA and says: So why do I like Dada so much, I the medievalist? Well, it’s because I’m not a classicist, however much I teach it. I prefer Romanesque sculpture to Gothic and Carolingian painting to Romanesque. I like conceptualism more than naturalism and firmly believe…

As we noted, the Pope celebrated Mass in a parish church in Castel Gandolfo on the Assumption. Some tidbits about the day: On Ferragosto [as the Italians familiarly refer to the August 15 holiday], the Pope followed a tradition and walked to the parish church of Castel Gandolfo to celebrate a Mass in honor of…

Some numbers: THE RELATIVE decline of Catholicism in France over recent decades is continuing, according to the findings of one of the largest ever surveys into the faith.  Two-thirds of the 60 million people of France describe themselves as Catholic, but of these only 2.8 million attend Mass regularly. Twenty-five per cent (10 million) of…

John Paul I on the way… The vice postulator of the cause for the beatification of Pope John Paul I announced that the diocesan phase of the process could end this year. The announcement, reported on Vatican Radio, was made public on the occasion of the presentation of the celebrations for the 28th anniversary of…
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