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Very interesting article about Loma Linda, California: The city is best known for Loma Linda University Medical Center, where in 1984 doctors performed the world’s first infant cross-species heart transplant: "Baby Fae" was given the heart of a baboon. Less known is that the university and medical center are run by Adventists. Loma Linda, home…

A lengthy road reaches a church trial: After waging a public battle against the Archdiocese of New York, the most prominent Roman Catholic priest in the archdiocese to be accused in the sexual abuse scandals was granted a church trial yesterday by the Vatican to determine whether he should receive the ultimate punishment of removal…

NYTimes piece about a book of photography and essays about worship and church life in inner cities: The title is a nod to the influential Jacob Riis book of photography published in 1890, ”How the Other Half Lives,” about tenement life on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Vergara, also a New Yorker, filled his book with…

Another post on an NBC program I didn’t watch! Hurray! This is one I can’t be moved to be upset about. I can’t see it succeeding, ratings-wise, first of all. (although I should probably not even type that until the overnights come in on Saturday, but…) Although Desperate Housewives has been successful, I can’t see…

Kind of forgot (I have mucho family in – David left this morning – 🙁 – and Christopher, Dad and Hilary are here til Sunday. Much excitement) – but John Allen’s Word from Rome is up: The emerging heart of Benedict’s papacy is about truth — his belief that modern men and women must find…

What will Archbishop Levada say in his deposition? Having spent $53 million to settle more than 100 claims of priestly sex abuse, Portland in 2004 became the nation’s first Roman Catholic archdiocese to declare bankruptcy. Dozens of other cases are in limbo while a bankruptcy court sorts out the archdiocese’s finances. On Jan. 9, Levada…

In his latest column, Fr. Richard McBrien looks at the Boston Catholic Charities dinner fracas, honing in on Carol McKinley (who has a deep dislike of me, by the way, I understand, but I most definitely don’t want to go there in comments, please) in particular. I was going to just excerpt, but this deserves…

The Pope’s homily at Mass: A great silence, permeated by attentive reflection and prayer, greeted the words of Benedict XVI as he finished his profound homily during Mass in the Basilica of St Peter to celebrate the feast of the Epiphany. This is one of the novel aspects introduced by this pope, that the liturgy…

Orthodox leader says he’d like to meet with Pope The spiritual leader of the world’s 200 million-plus Orthodox Christians said Thursday that he is eager to meet with Pope Benedict XVI sometime in the coming year in an effort to heal the long-standing rift between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches. Visiting this heavily Greek…

The Jewish return to petitionary prayer: The newfound popularity of the prayer for the sick begs for explanation. Why has this once fairly obscure prayer assumed such importance and ubiquity? And why has it spread in popularity across the Jewish denominational spectrum? Jews may be reacting to recent reports about the reputed efficacy of prayer…
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