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Helping victims of the sex trade in Eastern Europe Hannah’s story shows that despite the formidable odds, trafficked women can recover. The Magdala Project – named after the place Mary Magdalen came from – aims to enable Czech and foreign women to win back their self-respect and freedom. Project workers are well aware of what…

This is from last week’s UK Tablet: But the concept of Patrick as an exclusively Catholic icon is undergoing a far more serious redefinition than any at the hands of an imaginative creative artist. The Protestant majority community in Northern Ireland is staking out as never before a claim to a share of the Patrician…

The long-awaited sort of final word on what parishes and schools in the Archdiocese in NY should be shut down: The southern part of the archdiocese — the Bronx, Staten Island and Manhattan, as well as Yonkers and central Westchester County — is hardest hit in the recommendations. About two dozen parishes would be closed,…

Our new translating friend sent this along as well: her translation of a recent post of Sandro Magister’s at his blog (which I repeatedly complain should be provided in English as well…I mean…a few paragraphs every other day or so..how hard is that?) Anyway, the translation: Apologia for Islamic terrorism Signed by…. Take a guess…

The post on a Benedict-focused discussion forum is a translation of an article that is the journal 30 Days It’s an interview with someone who knew him when, beginning in seminary: Did the Ratzinger brothers distinguish themselves in any way? During lessons, they were always in the first row. The other students called them Orgel-Ratz…

Jay Anderson has an excellent post up, with links and background. He also evidently has a baby on the way..God bless! The Confessio of St. Patrick The Catholic Culture page on the saint. And then…on the Corned Beef Indult 2006? Get Religion rounds up the discussion. Whispers in the Loggia has the Master List of…

After a week of recovery, interrupted by a rather tiring, extremely nerve-wracking trip (I never told you about that – the flight from Erie to Cleveland. First time I’ve ever stood at the door to a plane and thought…hmmm. I don’t have to get on. I could rent a car, drive to Cleveland…catch the plane…

Jeffrey Overstreet has been singing the praises of this film for a few weeks now – the true story of a young Christian woman’s resistance to Nazi ideology and her martyrdom at their hands. Christianity Today has a round up of reviews – all glowing. Here’s the film’s official website, where you can find where…

In NRO, Nina Shea on today’s hearing on the State Department’s annual report on human rights around the world: Nor do the reports gloss over an increasingly violent and chaotic situation in Iraq. Here is just one of the many examples provided: “Christians in Basrah reportedly were forced to pay protection for their personal welfare.…

Here’s a really good, interesting article on native Irish priests serving in the Tucson diocese: Some 40 priests from the Carlow seminary came to Tucson. Another Carlow alum, Monsignor Thomas Cahalane, now 68 and pastor of Our Mother of Sorrows, came to Tucson in 1963; by then, another Irish American, Francis J. Green, had become…
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