In his weekly blog post last Friday (just getting to it, sorry), Cardinal Sean O’Malley recalled the episcopal ordination of two new auxiliaries for Boston. In his homily at the ordination Mass he highlighted the feast of Our Lady of... [Continue Reading]
In the October 2006 issue of Crisis magazine, Fr. Ray Ryland, a married former Episcopalian minister, now a Catholic priest, wrote about his perspective on celibacy in the Roman Catholic priesthood. The December issue sees several letters from... [Continue Reading]
The only point I want to make about this National Geographic article is word usage. The first sentence says: “Japanese fishers have found an unusual bottlenose dolphin with an extra set of fins that could be an evolutionary throwback to the... [Continue Reading]
It’s five years after a devastating attack on America by radical Muslim jihadists, and everyone’s doing a retrospective. So what does Britain’s liberal Catholic newspaper focus on? The Tablet asks why liberal American is silent as... [Continue Reading]
Catholic World News reports that the first steps in the promised massive reorganization of the Roman Curia have been taken. It was announced this morning that Pontifical Council for Migrants would merge with the Pontifical Council for Justice and... [Continue Reading]
Melanie and I have been discussing movies lately, including movies that present good, honest characters who exhibit strong values, movies that embody the Christian Truths. And then tonight my friend Dave recommended a movie that he thinks embodies... [Continue Reading]
Patrick Coffin has tagged me with the “I confess…” meme (or to use his neologism, he “memed” me.) So here goes: I confess I have no idea how this meme works, how many “I confess” statements to make, and how... [Continue Reading]
I’ve just heard that a local parish, St. James in Stoughton, had a Confirmation retreat this past weekend and that the worst-case scenario happened: One of the teens died of a brain aneurysm. Fr. James Kelly is the pastor of the parish, and he... [Continue Reading]
Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani of Lima, Peru, is the first Opus Dei cardinal, and because Opus Dei is so controversial, so is the cardinal. In this week’s Word from Rome feature, John Allen interviews the cardinal and finds out some very... [Continue Reading]
Ed Bradley asks National Security Adviser Condoleeze Rice on “60 Minutes” tonight: In the 30 months since the War on Terror started, al Quaida has made more terror attacks than in the 30 months previous, despite taking out most of its... [Continue Reading]