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CNS reports 50,000 at the General Audience today: "How time flies," the pope exclaimed to the 50,000 faithful who packed St. Peter’s Square for his April 19 general audience as he recalled that exactly one year earlier the College of Cardinals elected him to succeed the much-loved and "the great pope, John Paul II." He…

Some hint that Pope Benedict has been good for Germany: The Archbishop of Berlin, Cardinal Georg Sterzinsky, said many Catholics — including many Germans — had initially been skeptical about the conservative Joseph Ratzinger becoming the first German pope since the 16th century. But he told Berlin’s Inforadio that the year had shown that Benedict…

This columnist for the UK Telegraph sniffs at Archbishop Willliams’ Easter sermon: Why is the Archbishop of Canterbury so bewildering? After all, Easter is the biggest event in the Christian calendar – Dr Rowan Williams could have used his sermon to talk about the growing gap between rich and poor, the appalling treatment of the…

On the professor who led the charge to vandalize the pro-life crosses: She was put on leave; She has apologized A report from Inside Higher Ed, which quotes some other professors at NKU in regard to their perception of intolerance of their abortion-rights views.

…dissent from Fr. Jenkins’ action, that is. This, an "Open Letter to the University Community" by Dr. John Cavadini, chair of the Theology Department He digs deep, and faults the "Closing Report" for basically ignoring the Church, of which Notre Dame is a part and a ministry: The President’s statement, as a way of going…

NEW YORK TIMES READERS: Welcome! This your perpipatetic blogger’s old blog. Before the new blog. Which is now here. Back to business: That day a year ago is impossible to forget. It was thrilling and mystifying. Why were we all so fascinated, even the secular media? I was watching one of the nets and an…

Magister reflects on one unique aspect so far: the Pope’s off-the-cuff question and answer sessions with various groups: He strongly criticizes the Vatican press office, though, for being so slow at getting these sessions out: But little or nothing of these dialogues between the pope and his interlocutors reaches the general public. Benedict XVI replies…

Genius from Orthodixie. (But what else would you expect from someone who names their blog "Orthodixie?" )

Michael turned a corner in Rome and ran into someone he’d gone to school with 14 years ago. I stood waiting for an elevator in Atlanta and off stepped someone I taught with in Lakeland ten years ago – who this year has been the interim principal. Well, now, I suppose it wasn’t that surprising…

In his last two posts, Joseph Bottum has mused on Catholicism and literature. Yesterday, he asked the question many of us ask, daily – What happened? And yet, aesthetics is not a sufficient explanation for earlier Catholic moments. John Henry Newman speaks of the loss of beauty he experienced in moving from the high Anglican…
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