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Fr. Jim, who actually ministers in the Diocese of Arlington, comments on the news out of there today: The bishop allowing celebration of the 1962 Mass, and allowing altar girls: I can’t recall having been so happy at hearing a diocesan announcement. At a priest gathering today, Arlington’s Bishop Paul Loverde announced two rather big…

Gashwin Gomes has good commentary on an interview with an author of a book in Christianity Today. Got it?  The interview was in CT, not the book. Sorry. Here’s the interview: Most of us give little attention, other than winks and giggles, to the verses commanding us to "greet one another with a holy kiss."…

Allan Carlson begs to differ. From the Weekly Standard: Meanwhile, families that sacrifice a second income to keep a mother or father at home receive nothing except a higher net tax. Bills to correct this gross inequity have been regularly introduced in Congress since 1996, most recently the Parents’ Tax Relief Act of 2006 (H.R.…

Pope will not visit England in 2007. And you wonder why this is news and "Pope will not visit Fort Wayne in 2007" isn’t? Because there had been hot rumors circulating that he was going to go. But he’s not. So that’s the news.

…on immigration in the NYTimes: Some supporters of the bill have even accused the church of encouraging illegal immigration and meddling in politics. But I stand by my statement. Part of the mission of the Roman Catholic Church is to help people in need. It is our Gospel mandate, in which Christ instructs us to…

Stephen Hand has been a mainstay of Catholic internet life for many years, perhaps even since the beginning. His family is in the midst of a tragic, difficult situation – his 28-year old son has fallen into what doctors are calling an irreversible coma. We lift this family up in prayer.

Michael Paulson of the Boston Globe

Definitely go check out Mercator.net – an excellent webzine that should be on your favorites. Right now, they’re featuring several articles on Islam and Christianity.

Two subjects that come up around here quite a bit are the state of Christianity in Europe, and the state of faith among those who work in the Church. We cluck and worry about the former, and some of us shake our heads at the latter, while others of us, who’ve been there, know the…

…of Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa’s 1st Lenten sermon: We must take up one last teaching before taking leave of the Jesus of Gethsemane. St. Leo the Great says that "the Passion is prolonged until the end of time."[15] He is echoed by the philosopher Pascal in the famous meditation on the agony of Jesus: "Christ…
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