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Tim Drake has a profile of Bishop Finn of KC in the NCR(egister) – a counterpoint of sorts to the anguished crie de cour from the other NCR a few weeks ago. (the interview with Bishop Finn was conducted before the NCR(eporter) article appeared).: Bishop Finn attributes his desire for clarity to Pope John Paul…

…in the Diocese of Richmond. (For those not aware of the history of the Diocese. For years it was led by Bishop Walter Sullivan, one of the most liberal bishops in the US (the one exception to this general direction being his complete openness to the Tridentine Mass in his diocese.). He was succeeded, after…

The local bishop warns and accuses: Bishop Peric reminded his people of the restrictions that he has imposed on activities in Medjugorje. The parish church is not formally a "shrine," he said, and should not be characterized as such. Pilgrimages to the church are discouraged. Priests there are "not authorized to express their private views…

It’s been busy – family have been in and out for the past couple of days – the "cousins," all of Michael’s sisters and his parents – everyone lives in Florida…except us, of course. Last night, Michael and I had the amazing experience of dinner out without anyone tossing a piece of bread across the…

More on Trujillo’s excommunication for embryo-destroying researchers comment: From the Chronicle of Higher Education: The Rev. Kevin T. FitzGerald, an associate professor of oncology at the Georgetown University Medical Center, was upset by news reports of the cardinal’s statement and thought they appeared to be "misleading" and "ignorant" because they made the threat of excommunication…

Translation courtesy of Teresa at the Papa Ratzinger Forum: He spoke on the family, of the transmission of faith through the family, and then added this after the Angelus: I am following with growing apprehension the events in Iraq and the Holy Land. Faced on the one hand with blind violence which causes atrocious massacres,…

I liked this, from Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher to the Pontifical Household, on this Sunday’s Gospel passage: The Gospel is Mark 5:21-43, a rapid-fire succession of encounters and miracles. Fr. Cantalamessa addresses the historicity of the account (he’s for it) and then relates the final story in the passage – the raising of the…

In a WaPo article on weddings and such: Decades of statistics point to a societal retreat from the church wedding. Catholic marriage ceremonies have been in decline for 35 years — from 426,000 marriages nationwide in 1970 to 212,456 in 2005, according to church data — even as the number of Catholics continues to grow.…

Mother Theodore Guerin’s canonization set for October 15 Mother Theodore came to the United States from France in 1840 to establish a Congregation of women religious in a dense forest adjacent to a remote community known a Saint Mary-of-the-Woods near Terre Haute. She was born Anne-Thérèse Guérin, Oct. 2, 1798, in the village of Etables…

I always said that if I ever moved back to Florida, it would only be if I could leave near the beach. And this is why: on the coasts you have the breezes, especially lovely at night, letting you forget the 200 degree cars you had to climb into after even 10 minutes in the…
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