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Those "experts" on The Da Vinci Code at the Sony-funded site devoted to "dialogue" (See Barb Nicolosi’s shredding of that below) need to correct some things: No. Dead Sea Scrolls: discovered in 1947 in caves near the Dead Sea. Hence the name. Get it? Dead Sea Scrolls are products of Essenes, not Gnostics, and do…

Happy Valentine’s Day. This campaign was first unveiled for World Youth Day, I believe. Now its illogic goes wide.

The Catholic Outsider is keeping his ear to the ground about those meetings going on with the CDF and the Pope, saying that ending the SSPX schism does, indeed seem to be a high priority for the Pope.

Amily at After Abortion has more thoughts on Annie Lamott’s abortion outburst, as well as a link to the discussion at the Washington Monthly, based on a post by Kevin Drum. Emily remarks: Most of Kevin’s 400+ commenters agree with him but agree as they might, they haven’t been able to make women grasp that…

As is so often the case these days, there seems to be a great divide in discourse on this issue. And the divide is not between various opinions, but between the realities that people take into account as they’re forming their opinions and responses. A parallel situation might be the situation down on the US-Mexico…

…is avoiding the Amish buggies along the dark, snowy road on the way there! Had a nice talk last night, for confirmation candidates and their parents at St. Michael’s parish in Hicksville, Ohio. It was certainly a novel experience – having to only drive 30 minutes or so, instead of 3 hours, or instead of…

NPR picked up that story we blogged here a while back, about the high school ministry of providing pallbearers for funerals.

A short but interesting AP article on matters oft discussed here, but it’s always good to hear more: The forces reshaping Christianity come with many names. In Nigeria, the Mountain of Fire and Miracles congregation holds huge all-night revivals. Across Asia, the True Jesus Church preaches biblical interpretations that include shunning Christmas as a pagan-tainted…

Probably stupid. But perhaps some of you archaeology types can answer it for me. In my incessant reading on Rome, I’ve become particularly fascinated with what’s underground, as you can probably tell. I was reading last night in the quite wonderful A Traveller in Rome in which Morton is describing his experience of what we…

Auriesville retreat house sold – I’ve never been there, but Michael did a 30-day retreat there years ago. The Jesuits will keep the shrine, of course.. Colonial-era Jesuit missionaries laid the groundwork for converting the Mohawks to Christianity at Auriesville. It was also the birthplace in 1656 of Kateri Tekakwitha, the "Lily of the Mohawks,"…
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