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Gashwin Gomes, who is a normally US-based Catholic blogger with Indian roots, is in India for the summer, and reports on a discouraging Mass-going experience (be sure to read the comments on the post as well) All through Mass yesterday I tried so darn hard to stay calm, and to focus on prayer and to…

Could be… Controversy in the press surrounding "Da Vinci Code" author Dan Brown, just beginning to fade, will likely revive later this week when the July issue of Vanity Fair hits the stands. According to an advance copy, the magazine’s contributing editor Seth Mnookin alleges — in a massive article titled "DaVinci Clone?" — two…

From AsiaNews: a priest’s regular journeys to North Korea: In the nineteenth century, the Korean peninsula was described as a “hermit nation” because of its impenetrability. Alas, the expression still holds for North Korea, especially where the Church is concerned: there are no priests in the country, nor are there any bishops, and missionaries are…

This past week has been a very busy one for Benedict – let the man go on vacation (he will – in July, to the same place in the Italian Alps he went last year and to which JP2 went for many years)! I thought I’d provide links to and snippets from his major addresses…

From AsiaNews: The Pope continued his catechesis on Peter, today reflecting on unity and communion: The foundation of the primacy of Peter in the desire manifested by Jesus and recognition by the Twelve, and spontaneous prayers so that “poor human beings” entrusted with the primacy will know how exercise it according to the will of…

A WaPo examination, one of many we will undoubtedly see in the next couple of years.. But how can a person be humble and also believe he should be president of the most powerful country in the world? "It’s one of the most humbling things on Earth," Brownback says, his voice soft. "Look at the…

A letter writer corrects the NYTimes: In "A German Pope Confronts The Nazi Past at Auschwitz" (news article, May 29), you say that Pope Benedict XVI "met with 32 survivors of the camp, all but one Polish Catholics." In all fairness, after his homily he met with some 12 Diaspora Jews — no Christians. As…

John Derbyshire reviews Ramesh Ponnuru’s Party of Death Yet how inhuman they seem! What a frigid and pitiless dogma they preach!—one that would take from the living, without any regard to what the living have to say about it, to give to those whom common intuition regards as nonliving; that would criminalize acts of compassion,…

An interesting inside-baseball journalism story with a Catholic angle: G. Jefferson Price wrote for the Baltimore Sun for decades before he left in 2004. Upon his leaving, he entered into a relationship with Catholic News Service, in which he would travel to various CRS projects and write about them. These articles would be used in…

Canadian priest blogger Thomas Dowd writes: I do believe I’ve just become the first Catholic priest to post a video homily on YouTube. 🙂 I normally post audio files of homilies, but as it was First Communions a member of the congregation had a video camera that day, so I thought I’d try something new.…
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