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The First Things blog is doing something different for the month of August – members of their board are contributing posts and there’s a dialogue between Frederica Mathews-Greene, Ross Douthat and Jody Bottum on war matters, primarily on applying the Just War criterea to the Israel-Lebanon conflict. Former Boston mayor and (also former) Ambassador to…

From CNS: Dutch Cardinal Johannes Willebrands, a driving force behind improved Catholic relations with other Christians and with Jews, died in Denekamp, Netherlands, Aug. 2 at the age of 96. Pope Benedict XVI offered his prayers for the late cardinal, saying he humbly served Christ and worked tirelessly to fulfill Christ’s will that all his…

Julie at Happy Catholic read the short, parable-like novel by Myles Connolly, one of the first in the Loyola Classics series, and liked it…even as she was puzzled and confused by the central character (Which is what you’re supposed to feel, I think…and the great strength of the book is that’s the narrator’s stance, too.…

Around these parts we muse on matters catechetical and scholarly, and the engagement between the two. As a high school teacher, like most high school teachers of any subject, I was constantly unimpressed by the materials from which I had to teach, even when I chose them. The fact is, at the time I was…

Wesley Smith reports on the innovation of a San Antonio clinic: The instrumentalization of human life continues to spread like a wild fire. Apparently, a San Antonio fertility clinic is now going to make embryos from donated egg and sperm, not to help the biological parents get pregnant but for sale to infertile couples. The…

Every year, Professor Ratzinger offered a summer reunion/seminar of sorts for his former students. He continued last year, his first year as Pope, focusing on Islam. This year Darwin, Evolution and Christianity will be the topic. Next September 2, professor Peter Schuster, president of the Österreichichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, the Austrian academy of sciences, and…

The Pope returned to Rome from Castel Gandolfo for the Wednesday audience today, to address a gathering of thousands of altar servers and choir members in St. Peter’s Square: Since the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah started on the Israeli-Lebanese border, the pope has not let one public occasion pass by without repeating his appeal…

Vatican adjusts for 2008: The feast of St. Joseph would fall on Wednesday of Holy Week and the Annunciation on Tuesday of the Octave of Easter. So: While the two feasts are among the 14 solemnities marked with special care in the Catholic Church, they do not take precedence over the commemoration of Christ’s suffering,…

A few weeks ago, we blogged on a letter from Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, prefect of the Vatican Congregation for Clergy to Bishop William S. Skylstad of Spokane, Wash., president of the USCCB clarifying the correct way to deal with the assets of a "closed" parish. CNS catches up with a story on the letter:…

John Wilson of Books and Culture on a recent academic conference: So: A better than average conference, clearly a high point for scholars in this field, both old and young, who have seen their work attain academic respectability—but what of the implications? Why should an outsider care? There are many reasons, but a good place…
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