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A Boston Globe piece on the Cardinal Newman Society, especially apropros, since the Society recently called Boston College on the carpet for its high concentration of purported heretics. Yet it’s difficult to independently verify some of the society’s claims of influence. For example, a recent society document included this contention: ”Recently a Catholic bishop contacted…

Many new (well, newly listed) Catholic blogs at Kathryn Lively, who keeps up the ring.

Here’s the Truth Laid Bear blog aggregator on the hurricane…

Last one Roamin’ Roman has posted many, many, many photos Seminarian Jeff has final thoughts, including travel tips! Through a comment on his blog, I found this other blog of a seminarian who also attended and blogged about it afterwards and points us to an interesting site called Pilgersearch – kind of an online meetup…

The text of the Pope’s address today: Not only youth, but communities and their pastors also, should take note of a fact which is fundamental for evangelization: where God does not take first place, where he is not recognized and worshipped as the Supreme Good, human dignity is undermined. This is why it is urgent…

New book (about which I’ve been hearing for a while, I think) claims Shakespeare’s plays contained elaborate coded, political language: Far from being an ambitious entertainer who played down his Catholic roots under a repressive Elizabethan regime, Shakespeare took deliberate risks each time he took up his quill, according to Clare Asquith’s new book Shadowplay.…

From the Guardian, UK: Pope Benedict XVI, as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, was a professor of fundamental theology, not, as we said in ‘We want to show Benedict we love him’ (News, last week) professor of fundamentalist theology. Fundamental theology deals with the foundations of Roman Catholic teaching, while fundamentalist theology is a North American theological…

Continuing our Renaissance theme…a NYT book review of a biography, not of Lucrezia Borgia, as you might expect, but of Felice Della Rovere, daughter of Julius II. In more than one sense Lucrezia Borgia and her father, Alexander VI, had a decisive impact on Felice’s relationship with Julius II. Alexander’s besotted devotion to his beautiful…

Decisions provokes anger Federal drug regulators on Friday once again delayed making a decision on allowing over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill, saying they needed more time to gather public reaction to the plan and to figure out how they could enforce it. The announcement infuriated Democrats and abortion rights advocates, who said the Food…

David Morrison of Sed Contra has many interesting posts of late, including a couple on American Catholic history that shine light into some little-known corners. Maureen O’Brien writes about the new hot genre in Russian fantasy literature: sacral fantastica: At the same time, sacral fantastica began to turn into a marketing category, and the Sacral…
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