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Grounds for excommunication: The Vatican stepped up its fight against embryonic stem cell research on Wednesday, saying that scientists involved in such work would be excommunicated . Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, head of the Vatican department dealing with family affairs, said in a magazine interview that "destroying human embryos is equivalent to an abortion… it’s…

Bishop Lynch of St. Petersburg gives an enthusiastic introduction to the new translation to the people of his diocese: The translation was rejected by the Holy See because between its passage and its approval by the Vatican, new principles of translation were forthcoming which insisted on a slavish, strict translation of the Latin text. In…

More photos here. Today is the Feast of Ss. Peter and Paul, the patrons of the Church and the city of Rome as well. It is the traditional day on which the pallium is bestowed on archbishops, and, as Rocco notes, it is also the 55th anniversary of Pope Benedict’s ordination to the priesthood. In…

Scroll way, way down on this Papa Ratzinger Forum thread and check out the brief report that according to an Italian media report, the Compendium of the Catechism has sold 2 million copies in Italy in the year since its publication there.

Parishioners of closing parish sue.. Members of the closed St. James Catholic Church, whose 10-month, around-the-clock prayer vigil was unceremoniously halted by the Toledo diocese in March, have filed a lawsuit against the diocese and Bishop Leonard Blair seeking control of their former parish’s property and assets. “Our first goal in the suit is to…

Dave Andrusko of National Right to Life News writes about a new book: The book is Surprise Child: Finding Hope in Unexpected Pregnancy, by Leslie Leyland Fields. In all the hundreds of related books I’ve read, never have I encountered a more telling, moving, or compelling account of what women face when they encounter an…

Over at "Singing in the Reign," Michael Barber has a post up about a pastor who’s given his all to transform a parish. Good news abounds…when we look for it. (And share it – thanks Michael!) I could go on and on about how wonderful St. Peter and St. Paul Church has become. I could…

A couple of days late on this one.. Supreme Court declines to hear pro-life license tag case A federal judge had found that Tennessee’s tag wrongly promoted only one side of the abortion debate, but the decision was overturned by an appeals court. Justices have refused in the past to deal with similar disputes. Last…

Albert Mohler summarizes and comments on Annie Lamott’s latest LA Times piece, which contains a confession: Writing in the June 25, 2006 edition of The Los Angeles Times, Lamott begins with these words: "The man I killed did not want to die, but he no longer felt he had much of a choice." The language…

Intriguing – a new documentary film about St. Francis Xavier. Fourth Week Films and the New Orleans Province of the Society of Jesus present Xavier, a new PBS-style documentary film on the life of the famed 16th-century Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier. Narrated by Liam Neeson Xavier tells the missionary’s compelling story through dramatizations, interviews, contemporary…
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