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To Rod Dreher, who is now blogging regularly at Beliefnet.

An interesting report over at Mirror of Justice about a recent conference on the subject of prudential judgment. In his keynote address, Chris Wolfe (Political Science, Marquette) emphasized that although the magisterium has power to make particular political judgments, it should exercise caution and do so only sparingly.  Chris argued that because (among other things)…

Says Paris Hilton is too moral to play Mother Theresa. DJ gets unjustifiably verbally violent in response; is fired. Yeah, it’s all in good fun. Fun when, like Penn Jillette,  you have no real sense of the suffering of the poor, of the desperate straits of the abandoned dying whom Mother Theresa served, and, in…

You know, I could have gone all out in searching for souvenirs from Rome to give my two young adult sons. Art reproductions, fancy models of landmarks, Italian-made Man Garments. But, instead, I settled, along with a few other geegaws,  for a pen into which is constructed a model of St. Peter’s, surrounded by a…

This just came across the email transom. A press release from the corporate and foundation -funded Catholics for Free Choice: April 19 marks the one-year anniversary of Joseph Ratzinger’s papacy. Pope Benedict XVI has not emerged as a high profile public personality. Efforts to shape the secular world to fit the Vatican’s ideas have been…

But it’s spring! Sorry, must be done. I declared I would respond to the Michael Sean Winters piece on "Benedict the Ecumenical" in The New Republic, so let’s have a go at it. As I do so, I’m going to borrow from astute comments below. So consider yourself credited! The piece seems rooted in a…

From Matthew Lickona’s blog: Had occasion to talk to someone who worked at a megachurch the other day. They were going to be putting on a Good Friday service, which I found interesting. The person acknowledged that part of the reason was that about 60 percent of the congregation came from a Catholic background.

Much has been made on the right of the Church’s involvement in the immigration debate, with cretins like Michael Savage leading the charge. Here’s the thing, though. (Well, perhaps not the thing, but a thing.) As I was driving to South Bend yesterday, I listened to a bit of Al Kresta’s show.It was sort of…

At Villanove – a Catholic university – there is a controversy over a statue in memory of victims of abortion. What is portrayed in the statue? A bloody fetus? Body parts? Er…no. "Maternal Bond" by sculptor Timothy Schmaltz. The link takes you to the Villanovans for life website. (Please note, on the front page of…

Dom’s got the goods – official VIS note isn’t in yet – 3 new auxiliaries.
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