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On Beliefnet, the author of the new, best-selling novel, discusses Christianity, Prince Vlad, and the Dracula legend. I don’t know enough about the latter two to comment, but here it is for those who are interested: Your book gets deep into the history of the Christian origins of the Dracula legend. Even his name comes…

by Edward T. Oakes, in America (full text available only to subscribers) Because I have spent much of my life trying to convey Balthasar’s massive achievement through translations, essays and monographs, I am often asked what first drew me to his theology. Actually, it was rather accidental. I had entered the Jesuit novitiate in 1966…

Plato’s Stepchild on the anti-Catholicism of The Economist…and other stuff too.

Christmas at Maxwell’s is an independent film, the making of which is described in this Toledo Blade piece from today Mr. Laufer, 59, said Christmas at Maxwell’s was inspired by his Catholic faith and his mother’s own struggle with cancer. Diagnosed at age 48 and given six weeks to live, she instead went into remission…

Sounds odd Me, I’m so psyched about the Joaquin Phoenix biopic of Johnny Cash, I can’t stand it Watch the trailer, catch the line from the producer/whoever to Cash about what should drive him to write a song. Wow. And..Shelby Lynne as Cash’s mother? Shooter Jennings as his (own) dad? As I said…can’t wait. Coming…

WaPo profile of Jane Sullivan Roberts….Feminist For Life couldn’t buy this great PR! In 1995 Jane Sullivan walked into the tiny downtown office of Feminists for Life, a group she’d heard about from a friend. Serrin Foster was staffing the front desk and explained to her what they were about: The group was a kind…

Also in the Word from Rome, and very much worth reading, is Allen’s report on disciplinary actions against a religious order founder: The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued the decree May 27 in the case of 73-year-old Italian Fr. Gino Burresi, founder of a religious order called the Congregation of the Servants…

Do go check out The Word from Rome for snippets of various interviews related to the evolution flap I also had the chance to speak with Jesuit Fr. George Coyne, an American astrophysicist who has served as director of the Vatican observatory since 1978. It’s one of the oldest observatories in the world, whose roots…

The Bishops of England and Wales have an anti-DVC website One of the readers who passed it along noted that he’d seen a story about the website in news accounts…none of which bothered to give the URL. Helpful!

I love the Catholics of Nebraska, I guess, but I was, to say the least, a bit disappointed when I got off the phone radio interview and found that I’d missed a phone call from my absolutely favorite living American fiction writer. Yeah, it was bad news, telling me (very kindly and regretfully) that he…
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