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A Time magazine article: George’s announcement came just days before a meeting in Austin, Texas of the National Review Board, a lay body set up to monitor the sex abuse scandals and craft policies for dealing with the problem. The Chicago policy shift is sure to dominate the agenda, especially since it could actually mark…

A Times UK piece from earlier in the week on recent CDF rulings on apparitions, etc. Benedict is now already moving against private revelations in a way his predecessor did not. Two cases signal his intent. Barely a month after his election, the CDF issued two documents. One was a decree removing Father Gino Burresi…

He spoke last night; Catholic News Agency has a report: Speaking in Italian through an interpreter, Magister said that while historically, Christianity and Islam have some common roots and a record of genuine intellectual exchanges, that these have by and large been deserted for centuries. Answering a question from the audience, he said that one…

Spending a year and half discerning whether or not to let deer who are destroying your property be hunted = kind of whacked. All 16 Dayspring Church members took part in the decision as to whether to have a hunt, Hall said, using a Quaker tradition known as the "discernment process." Over a year and…

Now we have the "Vincentian Mission," which includes a a new minor in Queer Studies at DePaul, which might surprise St. Vincent, I’m thinking. Or not, according to the program’s director: Professor Cestaro teaches the course, “Introduction to lesbian gay bisexual transgendered and queer studies.” He told NPR that the programme is important not just…

An excerpt from a new book and an interview with its author, over at Godspy: I noticed that in your book you take on objections to Christianity that fall into two categories: One, political/historical issues—the Crusades, Inquisition, elements of sexual politics such as feminism and homosexuality. And two, existential questions—the "why" of human suffering, the…

Cardinal Arinze on the liturgical norms for the NeoCatechumenal Way: Q: How did this letter come about? Cardinal Arinze: It stemmed from the results of this congregation’s examination of the way in which the Neocatechumenal Way has celebrated holy Mass for many years, as, following the approval of the statutes by the Pontifical Council for…

Lots of things going on in Chicago: Cardinal George has directed the Chancellor of the Archdiocese to to oversee a review of  child abuse issues. Here’s the statement from the Archdiocesan website (pdf file) And then there’s "Mission Chicago" – a concerted revival effort which is going to make excellent use of one of the…

Roman tour guides lead "Angles and Demons" tour…but use the moment to set folks straight Guides such as Polzer get into debates with novel-clutching tourists when they (the guides) reveal that the markers in St. Peter’s Square — which Brown says were placed by Bernini as lighting the way to the next stop along the…

Roberto Benigni waxes pretty eloquently about Jesus and love Benigni on Monday was addressing a gathering of young people who filled the Verdi Theater in this city of the patron of lovers, St. Valentine. The meeting was organized Bishop Vincenzo Paglia, who heads the Diocese of Terni-Narni-Amelia, according to the Italian newspaper Avvenire. For others…
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