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Argentine bishops starts process: The archbishop of Buenos Aires started the beatification process for three priests and two seminarians killed in the 1970s during Argentina’s “Dirty War,” Vatican Radio said Thursday, seeking to have them declared martyrs for their faith. The move – the first step toward possible sainthood – is significant because the Catholic…

In America, church historian John Jay Hughes review two of the new B16 books – Allen’s on the election, and Robert Moynihan’s intro to the Pope. It’s only available to subscribers, but it’s a favorable review (and I’ve read the Allen book – it is very good). A couple of nice passages: I experienced Joseph…

Really – this was great. Theology on Tap, sponsored by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia Young Adult Ministry. Well over a hundred folks on the bottom floor of an Irish pub – totally engaged with the matters at hand, great questions, wonderfully kind! And guess what? I met Rocco! He exists! And he doesn’t look anything…

I’ll be speaking for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s Theology on Tap program on Thursday: (click on the logo for details) August 4Will the REAL Jesus Please Stand Up? Why the Truth about Jesus Matters for You.Speaker: Amy Welborn (click here to learn more!)Author of many Catholic publications including: De-Coding DaVinci and Here.Now. A Catholic Guide…

Over a week ago, the WaPo ran this lengthy piece on Sarah Scantlin, severely injured in an accident twenty years ago, Sarah, lying in this bed nearly 20 years, brain-damaged, blank, speechless, immobile, staring out the same window. Couldn’t talk to the people who came to talk to her. Couldn’t say change the channel. Couldn’t…

Christopher Hitchens, Ramesh Ponnuru and Peter Robinson were trading volleys all day at The Corner. I’m too tired to comment, but oh, Hitchens: It applies, in other words, to those who have never heard of Catholicism. I am not sufficiently fortunate to be of that number: ergo there is at least in this case nothing…

The AP story that’s running on the bishops’ letter to the Japanese bishops on the anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki implies that the bishop is writing that the dropping of the bomb was the equivalent to a contemporary terrorist act. "U-S bishop compares atomic bombing of Hiroshima to terrorism today " is…

Carl Olson and Barbara Nicolosi have both blogged on their interactions with Sharon Waxman, the NYTimes reporter who wrote this piece on the DVC movie and the Christian audience. My exchange was very pleasant – Barbara had scared me a little, because she was interviewed first and told me about it,  but bomb-throwing didn’t come…

A statement from the Torres family about Susan, who passed away today. This is obviously a bittersweet time for our family. We are overjoyed at the birth of Baby Susan and deeply grieved at the loss of her mother. From the beginning, we knew that two things would get us through to the baby’s birth:…

It was only one phrase, but it raised hackles here…and in other places as well. An archdiocese blaming a woman for having "unprotected intercourse." Of course it’s the Redemptorist Deadbeat Father story we’re talking about. And strange bedfellows – protected, I hope – this story makes, from Kissling to Novak to … Levada was on…
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