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The Da Vinci Code film will be released in the US on 5/19, and the world waits. Or, not. Who knows. Some recent DVC sightings, for good and ill: Here’s an excellent blog on DVC issues run by an Opus Dei priest in Rome, Fr. John Wauck. Blogger Susan Vigilante at NRO relates an unsettling…

Clarifications at Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex

Mark your calendars, Ohio peeps: MIchael and I will be speaking next Tuesday, January 31, at 7pm at St. Joan of Arc Church in Powell, Ohio!

We got one over pinkeye, and now I’ve just returned from picking Joseph up early at school where he was accused of the same. Justly.

An editorial: This is a remarkable, enjoyable and even endearing product of Pope Benedict’s first few months. If first encyclicals set the tone for a new papacy, then this one has begun quite brilliantly.

A post at Mirror of Justice on recent Catholic action in relationship to Darfur.

Not on this side. The other side. The pastor of St. Joseph Church hasn’t lived in his parish’s rectory since he arrived more than six months ago. When the Rev. Terry Steffens arrived at St. Joseph last July, he discovered severe damage within the rectory caused by more than 13 years of neglect and accumulated…

Katha Pollitt of the Nation responds to Will Saletan in "Pro-Choice Puritans." The trouble with thinking in terms of zero abortions is that you make abortion so hateful you do the antichoicers’ work for them. You accept that the zygote/embryo/fetus has some kind of claim to be born. You start making madonna-whore distinctions. In the…

Two quite different types of reaction to the encyclical are bubbling to the surface today. First, the one that suggests, either happily or not, that since this is all about Luv, and the specifics weren’t mentioned, it’s a sellout of sorts. Or at least a signal that the Panzer Papacy isn’t what we thought and…

..in which we will gradually post various reactions to the encyclical, in between a mad dash to try to summarize it. Ruth Gledhill of the Times UK surprises herself: Every sentence, stop and comma speaks of orthodoxy. It is steeped in the tradition of the ancient Church. The Pope was former head of the Congregation…
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