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The NYtimes has picked up on the story of the LI Catholic high school that dropped prom this year. A group of students have responded by expressing a desire to organize an alternative: Three Kellenberg seniors are hoping they can save at least a vestige of the celebration. They banded together to lobby for an…

Was a conference on religion blogging this weekend at Biola. Christian, with an evangelical slant, definitely. I heard from people who wanted me to come, but it’s not like I can drop everything and fly to CA at my own expense…Here’s their blog aggregator, linking blog posts on the events. I think it was pretty…

As I mentioned last week, I am in the final stages of finishing my book on Mary Magdalene, to be released next March, I believe. I have a heavy week of working coming up, but I think, if no one gets sick and the creek don’t rise, that should be it for the heavy lifting.…

I saw that Sandro Magister had blogged about this, but since his blog is in Italian, I had to wait until Rocco translated for us: Here. Back to the Synod, Magister writes that two Arguello-friendly bishops — one from Poland and one from Guam — rose to advocate the extension of the Neocatechumenal Way’s liturgical…

Hoyas on the Tridentine Rite: During discussion Saturday morning, Castrillón Hoyos, prefect of the Congregation for Clergy as well as president of the Ecclesia Dei Commission, created in 1988 to meet the pastoral needs of Catholics attached to the pre-Vatican II Mass, proposed inserting language that would essentially treat the old Mass as a legitimate…

In case you haven’t seen this via The Anchoress, I would like to point you to this blog, of a man who has been writing about his terminally ill brother. His brother just passed away, and that is recounted in this first post. Do go back and read the others – including this one, from…

Michelle Malkin has a post on a Mississippi town that’s being overlooked in the Katrina relief, and needs help.

Rich Lenoardi’s in England! Stopped by the Houses of Parliament to listen to MPs debate a bill concerning the merits of "a rail-free mass transit vehicle" (I think to myself, "this sounds like a bus") and to visit the exhibit commemorating the 400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot. The exhibit is small, and the exhibitors…

On Matthew Scully’s defense of Harriet Miers, but just as interestingly for our purposes, on Rabbi David Dalin’s book on Pius XII: In keeping with the solemnity of the Yom Kippur holiday, though, I spent my time after services reading David Dalin’s new book The Myth of Hitler’s Pope. It’s a short book but in…

Synod Wise So, here’s one big-picture observation: One of the most fractious liturgical debates in Catholicism over the last 40 years, at least in the West, has pivoted on the status and use of the pre-Vatican II rite of Mass. Yet to date, not a single participant in the synod has risen either to advocate,…
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