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The (Anglican) Bishop of Rochester on the current situation: So how does this dual psychology – of victimhood, but also the desire for domination – come to infect so many young Muslims in Britain? When I was here in the early 1970s, the practice of Islam was dominated by a kind of default Sufism or…

A quite interesting piece from Christian Century on 6 Protestant theologian/ministers who have entered the Catholic Church recently Unlike the other converts, Gerald Schlabach does not come from a magisterial Protestant tradition of state churches—though some other Anabaptists, like Yoder, have argued that the Mennonites also pursue a catholic (small "c") vision of the church.…

Well, it is almost football season. Over the past couple of weeks, there’s been much discussion here and there about San Francisco Catholic Charities’ "compromise" on placement of children with homosexual couples, in contrast, for example, to the decision of Boston CC to simply get out of the adoption business, period. What has become clear,…

Via Whispers, a press release from Cardinal Rigali: Recently, there has been extensive media attention regarding an attempted ordination of women, which took place on a river boat outside Pittsburgh on July 31, 2006. Eileen DiFranco, who is known to members of Saint Vincent DePaul Parish in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, participated in the…

Here’s the video of the Pope’s interview.

Well, I can’t find an image of the cover of this book anywhere on the ‘net (after 5 whole minutes of effort), so you’ll just have be satisfied with one more boring no-graphics post. I just finished The Dry Wood by Caryll Houselander, an English Catholic convert/writer who died in 1954. Two appreciations of Houselander,…

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(Click on photos for captions and credits) The Archbishop of York begins a fast: From a UK Christian news provider: The second-most senior member of the Church of England, the Archbishop of York, has moved into a tent inside York Minster to reveal an act of “public witness” in which he is calling for peace…

A 4-week long presentation on Catholicism for young adults in Houston had great numbers: Extra chairs were needed for the standing room only crowd gathered on July 17 for Cafe Catholica, a summer coffee house series geared towards young adults of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. More than 300 people attended to hear Archbishop Daniel DiNardo…

An (not very in-depth) interview with Charleston seminarian Jeff Kirby, who gave us our tour of St. Peter’s this past spring. Q. Do you live in Vatican City – or in Rome, which surrounds it? A. Actually in Vatican City, on the Janiculum Hill, the hill next to what was Vatican Hill. The Republic of…
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