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Mark’s got his book finished on one Mary, and I’ve got to hunker down and spend the next month finishing my book on another – a book on Mary Magdalene to be published by OSV next spring (gee…I wonder about that timing????) It’s called: Mary Magdalene: The Goddess and the Grail. Uh,…not.

Bishop Olmsted of Phoenix recently responded, via an op-ed piece, to critics of his policies on politicians, Catholic teaching, and Catholic institutions: To do this by actions as well as by words underlines the seriousness of these teachings and the depths of our convictions. One such action is to prohibit the giving of honors or…

Papabile remarks on a Whapping post on cassocks at ND, and offers some historical info, of which I was not at all aware…about what the Second and Thirdt Plenary Councils of Baltimore decreed in re/the garb.

Magister profiles a new summary of a massive history of V2: This Socratic role of the Bologna “workshop” seems to be even more accentuated in the “Brief History.” And this role concerns both the unfolding of the Council and its interpretation. For Alberigo and the Bologna group, Vatican II is without question to be interpreted…

RP sends this along, about the evangelical Christian presence on the Boston Red Sox They gathered in a makeshift house of God — a brick-walled retreat in Fenway Park otherwise reserved for postgame interviews — and prayed for dead and dying loved ones. They prayed for American troops in hot spots abroad. And for the…

Panic and tragedy..

Catholic schools have been subject to a series of attacks.

The Little SIsters of the Poor undertook the difficult task of moving their nursing home residents from NO to Baton Rouge Seminarians caring for sick and elderly who came to St. Joseph’s in Covington (btw that’s where Walker Percy is buried)

I think this one makes 8 languages into which De-Coding’s been translated. Serbian. Yup. Haven’t seen it, but I just got a note from a journalist in Montenegro, asking for an interview. So, since my book is in both Croatian and Serbian, does that make me a bridge-builder?

Today, Benedict used Psalm 126 as the ocassion to reflect on the blessing of children. The full text is here, only in Italian at this point (Zenit will have it up later, I’m sure), and here’s the English snippet they provide at the Vatican website. The Pope’s prayers for Katrina victims and rescue and relief…
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