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French women are having babies… The result is that more than in any other European country, French families now have three or more children. Germany and Switzerland also give generous family benefits, and in Sweden 77 percent of the children under 6 are in crèches, but birth rates stay well under that in France. While…

On the last Sunday of July, a traditional climb (barefoot) to the summit of Croagh Patrick, where St. Patrick iis said to have fasted for 40 days in 441. More on the pilgrimage

During Angelus message, Pope welcomes IRA disarmament news.

…considered by a Lutheran and an Orthodox theologian, David Hart, who wrote something controversial a while back in the WSJ – what was it? Ah yes, on theodicy and the tsunami. Well, here’s one of many good passages: John Paul’s anthropology is what a certain sort of Orthodox theologian might call a “theandric” humanism. “Life…

The name might ring a bell. He’s a British man with a progressive neurological disorder who has been battling with his country’s national health system out of the fear that once he loses the capacity to communicate, he will be euthanized. His case came out of court last week, and on his blog, Wesley J.…

Niall Ferguson on the decline of Christianity in Britain. He has no answers, being, as he says, a "materialist" himself, but it concerns him nonetheless. He begins by alluding to a conversation between one of the London bombers and a neighbor, related by her, in which the bomber asked her what religion she was, and…

An Observer columnst takes Blair to task for declaring war on Al-Qaeda and making peace with the IRA (Remember, not everything I post I agree with. Some things I just think are interesting and provocative.)

84-year old retired priest arrested for soliciting a prostitute… …it’s the fourth time since 1998. Update: I suppose, 29 comments into this, I should clarify what I mean by "pathetic." I mean it’s pathetic that this elderly man is so ill-cared for by his brother priests to whom he has been bound for probably 6…

Film about the exhumation of the body of a revered Catholic Scotswoman to be featured at Edinburgh Fringe Festival Sinclair was born into poverty in 1900, worked for McVities biscuit factory and was an active trade unionist before she joined the Poor Clares convent in London and worked tirelessly with the underprivileged. She died of…

You can feel okay about your parenting (once today at least) when your daughter begs you to let her stay up late so she can watch… Duck Soup
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