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A review of a new book on the Molokai leper colony – sounds heartbreaking and compelling. No mention of Fr. Damien though – in the review (I know the book profiles him) – I know – carp, carp, carp.

People, my email situation is getting ridiculous again. On a typical day, I get about 75 emails related either to work or this blog, not counting those that are getting spit over to spam and that I miss. Most of the blog-related pieces are links, which I GREATLY appreciate. Second in number would be queries…

A Zenit interview with a professor specializing in the Chaldean rite. Quite interesting details on liturgy and other practices. Q: What is the role of deacons and women in the Chaldean rite? Monsignor Yousif: The deacon leads the community for proper participation in the Mass. The role of women is to assist the priest in…

It would be interesting to meet and talk with Will Saletan. To watch him work through his obviously divided mind on the abortion issue. To make him defend statements like this: Roe is 33 years old today. It freed us from ham-fisted criminal laws that pretended to solve the abortion problem. But it didn’t solve…

Got to take issue with John Allen’s characterization of the message of the new encylical. He uses it in this week’s Word, and I heard him use it on NPR last week: Underlying all this is Benedict’s belief that the Christian message, even those aspects of its sexual morality sometimes seen as "hard-line," are ultimately…

Interesting verbs used to described the abortion rights activist’s action. Rarely do you see them used in a MSM report, here: Abortion rights advocates, concerned that the Bay Area movement has become too complacent, showed up en masse to protest the march. And they took a different approach. Although they were easily outnumbered by the…

At the Angelus, Pope Benedict remarked on the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (1/18-1/25) For 2006 the theme was taken from the gospel of Matthew ( “if two of you agree on earth about anything for which they are to pray, it shall be granted to them by my heavenly Father.  For where two…

You know, some people like to play fast and loose with words.  Like "Heretic." Well, now you can call Ned Reidy one, for real! In a rare heresy trial, the local diocese has convicted and excommunicated a priest who joined a denomination that doubts papal infallibility and doesn’t follow church teachings on homosexuality, abortion and…

The February issue is out, and yours truly has a review of God’s Secret Agents, that book about the Jesuits in post-Reformation England, up to the Gunpowder Plot. Emily Stimson has a piece called "Requiem for a Parish" that I’m quite interested in reading. The one article from the new issue that is online is…

The End of the Spear is a new independent film that Christianity Today describes to us thus: The story has been told in Christian circles for 50 years. In 1956, five missionaries were brutally murdered in the Ecuadorian jungle by members of the Waodani tribe they went to serve. And then something amazing happened; the…
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