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Clayton Emmer, a former seminary student himself, is going to start reflecting on the visitation document on his blog. Should be worth following!

A quite interesting article on Church finances from Forbes: What would a turnaround artist do with an $8.6 billion (sales) organization with 133,000 employees, falling market share and a mountain of multimillion-dollar lawsuits? You can’t break it up into pieces or sell off the whole shebang. This, after all, is the American Roman Catholic Church.…

At Mirror of Justice, Robert Araujo uncovers a statement by President Kennedy: Having said this, his remarks made as President at Boston College stand in contrast to his remarks to the Protestant ministers as candidate for President. In commenting on the recently released Papal Encyclical Pacem in Terris, the President said at Boston College: "As…

From a reader: Please pray for Christendom student Jenny Lozano. Jenny has encephlalitis. She collapsed Monday evening and was taken to the hospital in Front Royal. She is listed in critical condition. Last evening, she was transported to the Mayo Clinic. Jenny is in her last semester at Christendom before she is to enter the…

…please go check out Redeeming Time, a brand new blog from a Catholic church musician who is also in the process of going through a separation and divorce. I think "Redeem the Time" is a perfect name for a blog from that perspective, because those of us who have been through that experience realize the…

A few days ago, a commentor offered some thoughts on our N.T. Wright thread here: Thomas Wyld gave us some insight into the situation of the Anglican community in Iraq Now he writes with this link: The entire lay leadership team of the main Anglican church in Iraq is presumed to have been killed after…

In today’s general audience, which was held in St. Peter’s Square, the Pope spoke on the first part of Psalm 134, "Praise the Lord, Who works marvels." Benedict XVI explained to the 30,000 people present that this psalm "is a liturgical-style hymn, interwoven with allusions, evocations, and references to other biblical texts. … It begins…

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M. Scott Peck passes away The Road Less Traveled sold 6 million copies and, I think, was important in bringing some realism about human weakness and suffering back into the popular consciousness. The People of the Lie did the same for the reality of evil. FYI, by point of comparison, Purpose-Driven Life has sold over…

I’m sure it’s been done. I’d like to read something on this that’s truly objective: The impact of the Reformation on the status of European women.   I’m reading through some materials on the reformers and Mary Magdalene, and encountering not only the expected misogyny, but, in addition a contempt for single, independent women (aka, translated…
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