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Yale historian John Demos (raise your hand if you read "A LIttle Commonwealth" in college!) writes in the WSJ about attempts to posthumously (very posthumously) rehaibilitate an accused witch. The piece takes a rather interesting turn in its last third. A meditation, with a startling opener: With the so-called Enlightenment of the later 18th century…

Comments won’t be opened until morning, when I’m sure more stories will appear: Hezbollah using Christian villages as shields: A Christian from the village of Ain Ebel, who requested to remain nameless for fear of a reprisal from Hezbollah, reported that he found Hezbollah fighters setting up a launcher on his rooftop. Hezbollah fighters ignored…

Over at the rocking and rolling First Things blog, Joseph Pearce posts about a new documentary about Lord of the Rings fans and fanatics – that never mentions Christianity or Christians. Blind spots, anyone?

The Pope will sit for an interview with German television: MUNICH – ­ Pope Benedict XVI is to give an unprecedented interview Saturday to four German TV journalists invited to his summer residence, Castel Gandolfo, with the discussion set to air worldwide on August 13. The German-born pope has already given a couple of one-on-one…

I don’t watch it, but yesterday there was a battle royale over the proposed plan to sell the morning-after pill over the counter. You can watch it here – apparently Elizabeth Hassleback defended the pro-life position, Joyce Behar was obnoxious and Barbara Walters lectured her. A summary here. Apparently today, Barbara had something to say…

Bishop says half of all Christians have fled Iraq since 2003. Chaldean Catholic Auxiliary Bishop Andreos Abouna of Baghdad said that before the invasion there were about 1.2 million Christians in the predominantly Shiite Muslim state. Since then the overall number has dropped to about 600,000, he said. "What we are hearing now is the…

Archbishop Montalvo, who was Papal Nuncio to the US from 1998 to 2005, has passed away.. I believe he was suffering from lung cancer.

Why is Flannery over there on the left, where there’s usually a saint o’ the day? Because today is the 42nd anniversary of her death from Lupus. I’ll be on the fabulous KVSS from Omaha 8:15-9 (Central) this morning talking about her, and the show will be archived. Ignore the part where I say she…

…visit Louis Pasteur’s crypt. Fascinating post from Matthew at Holy Whapping: The scientist’s burial site is of great interest to both to those seeking a place of pilgrimage and a forgotten gem of Catholic architecture. I have never been there myself but was greatly struck by a number of photographs I recently came across. The…

Gashwin Gomes, over in India, can read this blog, but can’t post a comment. Here’s his comment on the post below about catechesis and Biblical criticism: When the General Directory for Catechesis came out (the one from the Vatican, in, 1997 I think it was), I read through it eagerly, and one of the things…
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