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A growing outrage (finally) about human trafficking at the World Cup – some articles on the subject. From today’s WaPo, a column by two people associated with an anti-human trafficking group: From our experience as service providers for victims of trafficking, we know that large sporting events, conventions and other such gatherings are closely tied…

Amazon-ing around, I came across an intriguing book published last fall, The Fall of Rome; And the End of Civilization by Bryan Ward-Perkins. Was the fall of Rome a great catastrophe that cast the West into darkness for centuries to come? Or, as scholars argue today, was there no crisis at all, but simply a…

Two ecclesiastical rumors seem to be solidifying: The Bertone-replaces-Sodano as Secretary of State rumor finds its way into the Italian press: Tarcisio Bertone, Cardinal Archbishop of Genoa, will be Benedict XVI’s new Secretary of State. Sources at the Vatican said this was "90% sure" and that the announcement could be made on June 29, feast…

Religion News Service story about the gender imbalance in Christian churches – not a new story. One thing I liked about the article is that unlike most of this type, it took the relatively long view, reaching back to 19th century concerns on the same matter, "Muscular Christianity" and so on. Negatives: It’s a Protestant-oriented…

A different sort of evangelism in Atlanta They hit hard, hit fast and were gone long before the Mall of Georgia’s shopkeepers rolled down their gates and called it a night.Jason and Marie Bunzey cased out a shopper at a candy store. Melissa Humphries found her target at Starbucks. Carter and Emily McInnis braced a…

Nicole Kidman returning to her Catholic faith (I don’t think Kidman, unlike poor Katie, actually ever joined Scientology, though.) NICOLE Kidman’s marriage to country singer Keith Urban this month will mark a new stage on her spiritual journey. A close spiritual confidant, a Father Paul Coleman, says that Kidman’s wedding preparations have helped deepen her…

Rome Reports is worth watching – it’s a 30 minute weekly program on, well, global Catholic news. It’s shown on EWTN a couple of times a week (Fridays from 11-11:30 pm Eastern, I’m thinking, since I just watched it), but it’s a European-based operation. Tonight, the program was all over the map – a couple…

In my alternate alternate life (the first alternate life being the one where I’m doing a Ph.D. dissertation on the implementation and application of the Second Vatican Council in the U.S.), I’m a human behaviorist, with a concentration on child development. Perhaps it’s partly because my two best friends in college were both Child and…

Those of you interested in episcopal politics should have the invaluable Catholic Hierarchy website on your Favorites. Here’s a list of vacant sees, and you can see from it that there are several still in the US: Sioux Falls since 12/04 Lake Charles, LA since 3/05 Youngstown, OH since 3/05 Birmingham, AL since 3/05 Salt…

Rabbi Eugene Korn of the American Jewish Congress on the Pope’s Auschwitz remarks, in the Forward: At Auschwitz, Benedict chose to speak in theological terms to reinforce this positive attitude by highlighting the church’s new respectful posture toward the Jewish people and Judaism. He asserted in the name of the church that today’s Jewish people…
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