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A nice piece on a young man who’s getting involved with FOCUS, the Fellowship of CAtholic University Students They’re much like Campus Crusade for Christ, and they both follow the same leader. FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic University Students) — just eight years old — is now active on 25 campuses in 15 states. The organization…

Chaldean bishops are concerned: Catholic bishops in Iraq are seeking last-minute changes to their country’s draft constitution amid "grave concerns" that it would lead to discrimination against Christians. Chaldean Patriarch Emmanuel-Karim Delly of Baghdad, Iraq, met Iraqi interim President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari Sept. 18 and asked them to remove Article 2.1…

A bit more on the crash that killed two seminarians last weekend. The seminarian who was driving has been charged: Robert Spaulding, 27, who attends seminary at St. Mary of the Lake University in Mundelein, was allegedly drunk last Thursday at 1:30 a.m. when the car he was driving through the seminary campus hit a…

Thought you might want to read Bishop Wuerl’s recent column on Intelligent Design and evolution:

But here’s one last post until this afternoon: McCarrick and Neuhaus in Pittsburgh, covered by the excellent Ann Rogers: In interviews, McCarrick and Neuhaus gave differing assessments of a proposal by Bishop Donald Wuerl of the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh regarding the public differences some bishops had in 2004 over whether to deny communion to…

The new edition of the Acta Apostolicae Sedis contains a detailed account of John Paul II’s last days.

Against Creationism: One company, called B.C. Tours "because we are biblically correct," even offers escorted visits to the Denver Museum of Science and Nature. Participants hear creationists’ explanations for the exhibitions. So officials like Judy Diamond, curator of public programs at the University of Nebraska State Museum in Lincoln, are trying to meet such challenges…

In his continuing series on doctrinal development, Michael Liccione tackles Limbo…

When I spoke at Notre Dame a couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Philip Bess, of the College of Architecture. I learned a lot in our five-minute conversation, and Philip has expanded his thoughts so that I might share them on this blog – it’s sort of a bleg, sort of…

Today, we remember the Martyrs of Korea, a group of 103, who were persecuted and killed between 1839 and 1867 (although there were serious waves of persecution before that time as well). Here’s a page on the history of the Church in Korea and here’s an article by Ann Ball. Note how the most rabid…
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