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The little 100 question-and-answer booklet I wrote is available here.

When I was researching the MM book, I noted claims here and there that Martin Luther had indicated a belief that Jesus was "an adulterer" with Mary Magdalene. I dug a little, but couldn’t find any satisfactory explanation for this in the time I had. Today at Get Religion, Mollie unpacks the possibilities, with some…

Jimmy Akin reviews the DVC film and asks a whole lot of questions in the process..

Via Rocco Palmo, news of a big bruhaha in Boston involving the head of the Caritas Christi health system – battling several charges of sexual harassment. The news today is reported here: Archbishop O’Malley was apparently supporting a private reprimand, the board was supportive of that until new accusations came out. Capping it all is…

A piece in Christianity Today looks at the DIdache – the brief, but rich manual of Church teaching that most scholars believe dates anywhere from the late 1st to early 2nd century. Interesting to see a Protestant perspective. Gashwin Gomes notes: The author’s locus standi reveals itself subtly, however: Many writers have noticed a "primitive…

The April issue of First Things is online – with a slew of interesting pieces including the Weigel piece on Iraq some of you discussed here last week.

A few different version of Doc Aringarosa: From Peter Esser Shannon Donahoo Fr. Roderick, the Catholic Insider podcaster, has another great one, posted here: And finally…via the excellent Web Elves (Thanks, excellent Captain Yips!)

The marvelous Dr. Larry Hurtado, who specializes in early Christian views of and devotion to Jesus has an article in Slate on the major scholarly errors in DVC. Good for passing on. It’s also important to emphasize that this question of which writings to treat as scripture, which to treat merely as edifying reading, and…

Okay, starting some time tomorow, I’m going to start requiring TypeKey registration for commenters. Nothing extremely negative is going on, but I just have an intuition that this would be a good time to start. My daily hits have increased by about a quarter over the past month, an uptick that certainly might not last,…

LaSalle Academy in Philadelphia…educating the poorest of the poor. From the reader who passed it on, who also noted that tuition is $200 a year. Today I visited the LaSalle Academy in Philadelphia’s poorest (yet most gentrified) nieghboorhood.  I was asked to advise them on a construction project.  This school is 3 years old and…
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