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New Entrance to Vatican Museums proposed: Rome plans to solve access problems to the Vatican Museums by building a huge underground entrance mall complete with shops and restaurants . The project was unveiled Monday by Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni who said: "We’ve done the archaeological probes and the Vatican is already looking at the project"…

Gerald at the Closed Cafeteria notes and translates a column from the Austrian press on the last year of papal news and action: Even more so than John Paul who grew up in Catholic Poland, Benedicts focuses his attention on the person grown up without faith. Because men do not find faith through rules, this…

Good catch from American Papist here. First, he noted a few days agoArchbishop Michael Fitzgerald’s indirect critique of Pope Benedict’s recent curial moves which Zadok noted and explained here: It seems fairly clear what is happening. The temporary unification of the presidencies will ultimately result in the Council for Migrants being subsumed into Justice and…

On the way over here (Columbia, SC) , I read The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece, lent to me by my dad as we passed through Knoxville this afternoon. It’s an easy read, good for library rats like me who like to read about other library rats doing research of one type…

Emily and Annie of After Abortion have started another blog –  Abortion Pundit, which is focused on abortion-related news. By doing so, they are hoping to maintain and clarify the purpose of After Abortion – to be a resource for people seeking information and support about the effects of abortion.

Now, EWTN’s Rome correspondent Joan Lewis has a weekly online column.

At First Things, Jody Bottum previews an article in the latest issue: A decade ago—after the fall of the Communist regimes in eastern Europe—John Paul II promised help for Albania’s recovery, and in his FIRST THINGS article, Schwartz sharply castigates the Vatican for its failure to fulfill the pope’s promise: Though only a jump across…

From Andrew Sullivan: At one end, high birth rates are an indication of social collapse and desperation: people are having kids in order to maximize their survival chances. Maybe there is some spiritual benefit to living in such dire need, but I fail to see a simple connection between high birth rates and social health.…

The Archdiocese of Indianapolis has used some of the money it received last year for Hurricane Katrina relief to help send more than 100 youth and chaperones to spend their spring break working to rebuild Biloxi, MS. Katie Berger (a freelance reporter for The Criterion and the youth minister as St. Barnabas Parish in Indianapolis)…

…to that guy who goes to the Saturday Mass at Queen of Peace in Gainesville. I think he just won something…
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