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Several articles in the Tucson paper about the Church and illegal immigration: An overview: Immigration reform Church leaders don’t condone illegal immigration and agree the nation’s borders must be secured, said Bishop Olmsted of the Phoenix Diocese. But the current immigration system is broken, and out of sync with the nation’s labor needs, he said.…

The Chicago Tribune with an article (travel-centered) on the Benedictine Monastery of the Immaculate Conception and St. Meinrad’s Archabbey.

9pm Eastern. 10 hours…and I’ve kept myself from reading spoilers – this time. Very unusual for me, but something told me I really don’t want to be spoiled for this one. Although I have heard … (below the jump for those that don’t want to be potentially spoiled)

An article in the Star-Ledger about the Jesus DeCoded site. The Jesus Decoded site from the USCCB Elizabeth Lev interviews me at Zenit.

Because when I go to Mass there I can’t understand what they’re saying, so even if they’re mucking things up,  I sit in blissful ignorance. Yeah. As per usual, our patience with the local scene to which we are geographically and canonically designated runs out in Lent. Because for some odd reason, the music minister…

A NZ paper report on native son Michael Baignet’s testimony at the Holy Blood/Holy Grail – DVC trial. "Brother Michael" Baigent’s job as editor of the quarterly Freemasonry Today can hardly pay much, though that and his books force him to keep the family address in Somerset secret. Being a prominent Freemason and critic of…

Closing churches in Boston, St. Louis and elsewhere…salvaging the building’s art for churches elsewhere: Saunders said Our Lady of Hope spent $200,000 on stained-glass windows that were appraised at $2 million. The hand-carved marble altar from the Philadelphia Archdiocese cost $500, but he estimated that a new one like it would have been a thousand…

Getting a canonization cause underway: A priest from Schuylkill County who spent 15 years in gulags for trying to spread the word of God in the atheist Soviet Union has cleared the first step toward recognized sainthood. The Allentown Catholic Diocese recently shipped three wooden crates to the Vatican in Rome full of what they…

A NYTimes Magazine piece on Wrongful Birth lawsuits, and the whole issue of genetic testing and its consequences One gets quesy reading articles like this – quesy from the lurching and evasion, violent motion which Dramamine can’t cure. An unborn child is "potential life" although it is growing, it is surely already alive, is it…

Catholic Dems reprimanded: Top U.S. Roman Catholic leaders told Democratic lawmakers yesterday that there is no wiggle room in church teaching on abortion and that they are duty-bound to work against "the destruction of unborn human life." The statement by three top leaders of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is a response to 55…
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