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An article in Crisis (pdf format – but good for getting the visuals, which are important here. Obviously) It’s very interesting, if you’ve never explored the why’s, what’s and how’s of chant in a serious way before. (like me). Good for a print-out. It’s by Arlene Oost-Zinner and Jeffrey Tucker. And…. !!!!

I had heard this was coming, but Ted Olsen at Christianity Today takes a close look at this weekend’s NYTimes Magazine covers tory on people opposed to contraception. Shorto is right that religious conservative Protestants have been increasingly critical about the 1965 contraception case Griswold v. Connecticut, and that recent technologies (especially the emergency contraceptive…

The Word from Rome, that is. Different views of Christian and Islam (including notes on a statement by Bishop Wenski of Orlando on the matter), the China problem, and various other conferences and confabs.

Of course, that is a constant state of life for these folks. A reader notes that tomorrow’s election in California presents the latest version. He also notes this: Some of the frustration is aimed at liberal Episcopalians who say now may be too fragile a time to elect a gay man or a lesbian. The…

This week in Rome has been marked by celebrations of the 500th anniversary of the Swiss Guards. Fr. Guy of the "Shouts in the PIazza" blog notes the schedule: May 5: 3:30pm, in the Auditorium Conciliazione a meeting will take place between all the members of the Swiss Guard and their families and friends. 7:00pm:…

This idiot opines at a newspaper-sponsored blog It’s official. The Catholic Church is officially calling for a boycott of The DaVinci Code – The Film.  This will ensure that Catholics will flood to it.  OK, I’m just kidding.  But all of the brouhaha is reaching ridiculous levels. A high ranking Vatican official called for all…

Clarified in the thread below and in this CNS piece: Father Conn said Navarro-Valls "simply noted that the act (of ordination without approval) objectively has this automatic penalty attached, but there always are conditions." If the bishops involved "were not laboring under an external burden, it would be clear," he said. Excommunication "may have been…

Terry Mattingly’s latest column was inspired by a thread on this blog. Can you find the clue? Even without the  TMatt Code, the column will interest you, because it’s about liturgical music, and that always inspires mega-comments because we’re all overwhelmed with love of the music we hear in our Catholic churches, and just have…

I’ve returned to the Heart, Mind and Strength radio program lineup as a regular – Thursdays at 2 Eastern. Here’s the link to the podcast of yesterday’s – and every day’s – program.

A Tablet piece on the dramatic economic disparity within Kenya, and a looming crisis: A world away from the tourist beaches and safari parks, the coffee plantations and market gardens, are thousands suffering from lack of rain and corruption in the north of Kenya. Only the swiftest of aid can prevent catastrophe
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