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It’s a podcast – those of you familiar with the world of Catholic podcasting know Fr. Roderick well – In his "Daily Breakfast" podcast, Fr. Roderick reviews the film, which he saw last night. (The actual review starts about 10 minutes in) (What makes it very helpful is that he’s got audio clips of dialogue…

John Allen reports that the Vatican has ruled on the Maciel case: Capping a decade-long on-again, off-again investigation of accusations of sexual abuse, the Vatican has asked Fr. Marcial Maciel Degollado, the founder of the Legionaries of Christ, to observe a series of restrictions on his ministry. In effect, Vatican sources told NCR this week,…

Finally!!!! Dom and Melanie Bettinelli’s baby is on the way: I have good news and bad news. The good news is that Melanie’s water broke last night and we went in to the hospital. The bad news is that they discovered this morning that the baby is breech and so they will have to do…

He starts out by sneering at anyone who might think any harm might come from this work – and I was ready to go after him! – but then… (scroll down for his section of the article) The second point – and here is where I am on the side of the Catholics denouncing it…

Congratulations to Dave Hartline of Catholic Report, whose book The Tide is Turning Towards Catholicism will be published this fall.

Over at "Against the Grain," Christopher Blosser runs a detailed overview of the discussions that have raged since the road to the Iraq war – was it a "Just War?" Should the concept of "Just War" be re-evaluated, redefined or even scuttled? What weight did the Pope’s words have? One piece he doesn’t include in…

Generate your own Dan Brown novel! (keep refreshing – you’ll get a new one every time.) Rich Leonardi takes on the Code in the Cincinnati Enquirer. A priest who’s in Cannes protesting has a little piece in a Canadian paper today.

I think we’ve got something here. A first attempt by Jules, drawn from the comments: Patriarchy was in trouble, what a sad sad storyNeeded a strong leader to ensure its future gloryWhere oh where was he?Where could that man be?We looked around and then we foundA prop for the papacy–And now it’s… Springtime for Constantine,…

Hardball will be live from NY Opus Dei headquarters tomorrow – should be interesting! Random DVC link, from John Thavis of Catholic News Service: While the movie’s portrayal of the Catholic Church is distinctly unflattering, its treatment of the Catholic organization Opus Dei is particularly negative. The novel placed Opus Dei in the middle of…

See how many fit: 1) Movie’s pretty bad. Talky, awkward flashbacks, pointless activity, miscast leads. 2) McKellan rocks! 3) It’s probably bad partly because the filmmakers didn’t want to offend Christians. They smoothed it out and took the teeth and passion out of it. 4) Because there are bunches of stupid Christians who take this…
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