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Newsday article on priests ministering to the Spanish-speaking population in Long Island. Amazing. An article on this subject that doesn’t reference how much more fantastic the Protestants are doing in this regard. In many parts of the country, seminary education has a heavy bilingual flair to it, and seminarians must learn how to say Mass…

Well, sort of. Well, not really. This morning we headed an hour west to take in the Circus City Festival Parade in Peru, Indiana. From the late 19th century to the early 1940’s, Peru was the winter home of many circuses. Ringling bought out the major circus housed there in 1929 and the era of…

Pretty fascinating little CNS story on the Vatican switchboard and phone service. Lots of tasty little nuggets. "Working at the (Vatican’s) call center is a very delicate job, and we would never think of putting in automated operators," the brother of the Society of St. Paul told Catholic News Service. About a dozen nuns who…

In the Weekly Standard, Jody Bottum tries to crack it: Of course, in one sense, Sodano was merely indulging the kind of ritual statement–everybody’s wrong, but Israel most of all–that the Vatican has been issuing for decades. It didn’t mean much in 1973, and it doesn’t mean much now. In another sense, however, Sodano’s remarks…

Someone forgot to replace the sandbox top. It rained. So?

From the Guardian, a review of a new bio of John Donne, by England’s Poet Laureate (the review, not the book) Books that emphasise the conflicts in Donne are hardly rarities. Paradoxes haunt the previously standard John Donne: A Life (published by RC Bald in 1970) and the best critical studies (including John Carey’s landmark…

Just posted at First Things, a review/essay of the recent spate of Theocracy’s-Around-the-Bend books by Ross Douthat. It’s excellent – he does us all a great favor by explaining just how all of these writers connect-the-theocratic-christianist-dots, in case you were wondering. He then pulls it all together: In addition to casting religious conservatives as mullahs,…

The Vox Clara Committee is composed of bishops from the English-speaking world. Its mandate is to advise the Congregation for Divine Worship on translations of liturgical texts into English. The Committee has been meeting in Rome this week, and has issued a statement on its work this week.

Remember Damon Linker? The former First Things staffer who wrote that New Republic cover story on Fr. Richard John Neuhuas, The Absolutist? In which Neuhaus Threatens Your Freedom? (The article was much discussed here and at the American Scene, and Linker himself entered both discussions.) We knew, of course, that Linker’s article was reflective of…

Sandro Magister interviews Domenico Bartolucci, long-time director of the papal choir in the Sistine Chapel, dismissed during the pontificate of John Paul Ii and, some say, subtly and symbolically brought back to the fore by Benedict. Q: What are the initiatives that Benedict XVI should take to realize this plan in a world of discotheques…
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