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Polling says women want restrictions? Evidence of a widespread public demand for the government to further restrict women’s right to have an abortion is revealed in a remarkable Observer opinion poll. The findings have reignited the highly-charged debate on abortion, and increased the pressure on Tony Blair to review the current time limits. The survey…

America magazine ran an editorial about the recent Instruction on homosexuality and the priesthood. At the end, they have a poll question, asking you if you agree with the editorial or not. Fr. Neuhaus on the editorial

The message: Persons consecrated in poverty, chastity and obedience "are eloquent signs in the world " of God’s merciful love, celebrated in the encyclical "Deus caritas est." Recalling the recently released document, Benedict XVI reaffirmed at today’s Angelus "the primacy of charity in the life of Christians and in the Church", and saints as "privileged…

Grief, Gratitude and Baby Lee  – from the LATimes. This was written by Stephanie Simon, who also wrote that LATimes profile of the Arkansas abortionist a couple of months ago. (I’m thinking she might be working on a book of some sort) This one is different – it’s about the work of Choices Medical Clinic…

Earlier this week, Mark Pinsky of the Orlando Sentinel interviewed me for a piece he was writing on Grace Hill Media’s work with Sony Pictures on marketing The Da Vinci Code film. Here’s the main article, which first focuses on what Campus Crusade for Christ and Josh McDowell are doing – producing study guides and…

Peter Steinfels chimes in… When Benedict speaks of love as the "primordial cosmic force," he knows of course that science traces the movement of the sun and stars to the Big Bang, gravity and other forces of nature. He is, nonetheless, claiming that the truest, most fundamental insight into the nature of the cosmos and…

As noted far and wide, today is Mozart’s 250th birthday. Elizabeth Lev has a Mozart in Rome story at ZENIT. Mozart is often associated with the Freemasons — he joined the Masons of Vienna in 1784 — and "The Magic Flute" is held by many scholars to be a Masonic opera. The most important moments…

Cardinal Keeler says he’s coming Via Whispers

Allen on the encyclical, with some added remarks from Cardinal George. As well as conversations on the nature of Catholic charitable work from the Cor Unam conference. Even apart from policy questions, there’s much to learn about Benedict XVI’s papacy from Deus Caritas Est. First, he will not, as some feared, lead the Catholic church…

But this one beats the destroyed rectory story: A Franciscan priest famous in Italy for the religious conversion of a leading porn star was in custody last night on charges of sexual harassment after a nun alleged that she was forced to take part in orgies at his monastery. Fr Francesco Bisceglia, 68, and his…
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