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Go there for discussion and analysis of new studies of the impact of abortion on women, and how they’re being reported And do go to Ashli’s blog for updates on the young, pregnant woman blogged about here a couple of weeks back, who needs help.

This was announced last week, but since I knew nothing about this man, I refrained from posting and let others do the heavy lifting. Benedict named Sri Lankan Archbishop Albert Malcolm Ranjith Patabendige Don, who is now serving as apostolic nuncio to Indonesia and East Timor, as secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship. (Where…

A NYtimes piece from a few days ago about Vietnamese-American seminarians and priests At a time when fewer American Catholics are expressing interest in the priesthood, Vietnamese-American men are an anomaly. They are now the second-largest minority ethnic group in seminaries, only slightly behind Hispanics, who account for a far larger percentage of the general…

There’s a heresy trial starting today. In the United States of America. In the Catholic Diocese of San Bernadino. Here’s the story. (Requires registration) The Diocese of San Bernardino today will hold what experts say could be one of the few Roman Catholic heresy trials in U.S. history. The priest on trial refuses to attend…

…there’s a Diocese of Marquette. I saw this in the VIS release, and thought it was a mistake. No, just my ignorance – it’s the UP of Michigan. Well, they have a new bishop! Appointed Fr. Alexander King Sample of the clergy of Marquette, U.S.A., diocesan chancellor, as bishop of the same diocese (area 42,152,…

In the comments in the post below this one, Ian draws our attention to the Christmas letter from the Cardinal Kung Foundation, which minces no words regarding some recent statements from Church officials: Tens of thousands of faithful, priests, bishops and nuns suffered and died in Chinese jails because they refused to denounce the Pope…

Various Zenit articles: Deacons brought in for re-education in PRC Laos won’t permit ordination (it would be the first since 1975) Evaluating the situation in Vietnam A reminder of the very nice website for the Church in Cambodia – all 23,000 of them, I believe

Magister with a lengthy analysis of Vatican diplomacy

Geographically it makes sense, but in every other respect, it’s news to me. A delegation of North Korean Orthodox clergy has come to Vladivostok from Pyongyang. The four North Korean clerics will be trained for three months at St. Nicholas’s Cathedral, mastering practical skills of conducting the Orthodox liturgy in Church Slavonic. The delegation is…

A lovely piece from Touchstone by Emily Stimpson, one of the ECB – Early Catholic Bloggers. The stories also have a bit of mystery in them. Mystery exists in the very design of my house—unexpected stairways and odd angles meet you at every turn. Traces of the families who lived here before me add to…
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