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The Pope today: Towards the end, Benedict XVI recalled the last days of John Paul II, sick and in silence. The pope said the Lord “stripped him of everything to assimilate him with himself… His gestures and proclamations were reduced to the bare essential: to the gift of himself to the last”. The pope added:…

A few weeks ago, we noted the excellent series on liturgy being written by Bishop Slattery of Tulsa and published in the diocesan paper. The Curt Jester has taken what I believe is the latest letter and, as he said, "freed" it from evil pdf format and offers it in a blogpost. All of these…

The NYTimes on the battle over the SF church: Michela Alioto-Pier, a city supervisor whose district includes St. Brigid and who has shepherded negotiations between the Academy of Art and the parishioners’ group since January, believes that the university is trying to appease the parishioners. But she also said it was easy to understand why…

From the Philippines, an article about a Benedictine monastery located near the site of many political protests

Commissioned to create a sculpture of soon-to-be St. Mother Theodore Guerin, an artist’s life is transformed: It has been five years since Clark accepted a commission to sculpt a likeness of Mother Theodore Guerin, founder of St. Mary-of-the-Woods, for the Sisters of Providence. Then, Clark was living in Fort Wayne and the statue was to…

Is a Franciscan secretly saying Mass at 10 Downing Street? Where’s the priest hide? The Franciscan friar who helped convert the Tory MP Ann Widdecombe to Catholicism is now holding private Mass for the Prime Minister at Downing Street. Tony Blair has been attending private Roman Catholic Mass with Father Michael Seed, prompting speculation that…

I was torn about putting this post up because it seemed so miserably self-referential, as if it actually matters where we were when the Pope died. But thinking about it a bit more, I decided it’s actually not so lame. I think it will be interesting to read your accounts of where you were, what…

I’d recommend this CNN special, that aired this evening, and will air again tomorrow (Sunday) at 7 and 10 Eastern. There’s a page on the program here, with a few clips linked. CNN "Faith and Values" correspondent Delia Gallagher reports the program, and in her hands, the program is completely different than, say, what anyone…

Casual readers of Catholic blogs might have been puzzled by the high interest in the just released English translation of the Compendium of the Catechism.  The US version has taken far longer than almost any other to be released, the dates have been pushed back repeatedly for months, and earlier this week, when word finally…

An Episcopal priest continue the journey…(via Pontifications) When considering becoming a Roman Catholic the first thing that most people would obviously take into consideration would be the Pope. I realized that people who have a high view of the Pope are almost always Catholic. The reason for this I believe is that there is an…
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