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A New Orleans parish in peril: In the face of a much-reduced city population and physical damage to many churches post-Katrina, the Archdiocese of New Orleans is closing seven parishes and delaying the reopening of 23 churches. Attendance at St. Augustine, down to fewer than 200 people pre-Katrina, increased significantly afterward. But archdiocese officials said…

A NCR(egister) article on the fight out in Colorado over statutes-of-limitations legislation that excludes public institutions – like schools At a Senate committee hearing, too, opponents, including an attorney for the Colorado Catholic Conference, were cut off and told they could only comment about material in the bill. When the first opponent began his testimony,…

A brief NYTimes note: In December, after the Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a tough border security bill that, among other things, would make it a crime to assist illegal immigrants, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops assailed it as extremely punitive and called on its flock to oppose it. Church officials have sent…

Catholic Church in Scotland throws down the gauntlet in the wake of a court decision for a teacher sacked for being non-RC McGrath estimated the current proportion of RC primary school teachers who were actively practising as "90, 95, 98%. It’s a highly significant proportion." He revealed that some non-RC teachers had been appointed by…

A rather interesting column from the Times (UK) on the decision confronting a High Court in Ireland on what to do with some frozen embryos. It’s more honest than most treatments of the issue you’ll find here, although not every word the writer says will be to everyone’s liking – she insists that because pregancy…

Check out the Roaming Roman’s absolutely wonderful photographs and trip report.

But I still want to point out to you the absolutely great section of the North American College website on the Station Churches in Rome The interactive map shows you where each church is located, and the tradition is for the NAC seminarians to walk to each station church for an English-language Mass celebrated at…

Part 1 of the 1st Lenten homily of the preacher of the Pontifical Household, Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa . This struck me as an intriguing point: It has been written that the Gospels are "accounts of the Passion preceded by a long Introduction" (M. Kahler). But sadly the latter, which is the most important part…

Tom at Disputations has posted an outline of Deus Caritas Est he used in a parish discussion of the encyclical (Although he says in the comments that the "discussion" part of the event might be hard to discern) And, there’s also this, penned by yours truly.

Terri Schindler Schiavo’s feeding tube was removed. She died 13 days later, on March 31. Blogs for Terri is still here – drawing attention to the issues at work in the Schindler-Schiavo case. Today, perhaps we could pray for all of the severly disabled in our midst, and pray for those who care for them.…
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