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Pope, at Angelus, prays for peace and conversion of heart Pope Benedict has offered prayers asking God to stop the "murderous hand" of terrorists and convert their hearts and minds to peace.Benedict referred to the recent "abhorrent terrorist attacks" in Egypt, Britain, Turkey and Iraq during his noontime blessing. It was delivered for the second…

Michael has a long, excellent post related to some points we’ve been discussing, highlighting what we hope our books can do to deepen the faith of the typical Catholic Reflecting on today’s Gospel and the pearl of great price… A great grace in my life was to have known a young woman who had experienced…

…more news stories on tomorrow’s action, many with headlines like this: "Women plan to become Catholic priests." Again….no. That’s not what they’ll be. The messed-up ecclesiology isn’t confined to headline writers, who may be partially excused, but to the participants as well: A few weeks ago, Harry J. Flynn, archbishop of the St. Paul-Minneapolis Diocese,…

Annie Banno, with a lengthy, documented post on an abortion-breast cancer study sponsored by the National Cancer Institute – and hidden by them, as well.

What is more intriguing…the monks on the march or the Burger King advertisement? What they’re protesting (and it’s not Burger King. Close, though)

Priests, children and child support Single and unemployed, Stephanie Collopy asked a Portland judge this month to order her son’s father to increase her child support and to add their chronically ill boy to his health insurance plan. Sitting on the witness stand in a white button-down shirt, gray slacks and blue blazer with a…

Joseph Bottum in First Things His point? That the justification for capital punishment that is rooted in the need to repay a blood debt with more blood is essentially pagan, and, unchecked It is real, unbearably real, in other words, but also a story, with a purpose in the way the story goes. And taken…

This is the title of a moderately lengthy article in the 7/25 issue of The New Yorker (article not online). What’s interesting, as one reader pointed out, that this is the second long piece on Roman Catholicism that the New Yorker has run in recent months. What other secular magazine is attempting to take this…

We had a thread last week on this order’s work in DC. Someone posted questions about the admission criterea, at least to the Queens, Village, NY facility. Here’s a clarification from Sister Margaret Hogarty, lsp: I would like to clarify the admission policy of the Little Sisters of the Poor in Queens Village, NY. We…

If you go look at the Amazon list of best-selling books under the Catholicism category, you’ll find, at this moment (8:55 central), that A Woman Rides a Beast by Dave Hunt holds the #17 spot. Really? I’m thinking that even thought the book is *about* Catholicism, sure, the fact that it’s a virulent, anti-Catholic screed…
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