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USCCB Election Roundup
As news of Archbishop Dolan’s precedent-shattering election as president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops ricochets around the Catholic blogosphere, pundits on all sides are having their...
Disney’s Christian Past and Tangled Present
In Tangled , the Walt Disney Company’s new animated, feature-length, 3-D adaptation of “Rapunzel,” critic Armond White finds , sadly, that the story of the girl with the very...
The Next Catholic Speaker of the House
Rocco Palmo of Whispers in the Loggia provides an interesting sidebar this morning to last night’s election returns: Since the first Congress sat in 1789, only four American Catholics...
Halloween Memories
Each year, as the month of October draws to a close—and late-afternoon shadows grow longer earlier, and there’s a chill in the wind, and bright leaves swirl down into...
Socrates in the City
It’s always good news when Socrates in the City opens registration for its latest “Conversation on the Examined Life.” Already this fall, SITC has presented an evening with British...
Spain Protects Bulls, But Not Babies
As Wesley J. Smith said this past Thursday in a post on Secondhand Smoke, the fact that the government of Catalonia has voted to ban bullfighting in that region...
The Godfather and the Holy Mother
According to a report in Britain’s Telegraph , Bishop Giuseppe Fiorini Morosini of the Calabrian Diocese of Locri-Gerace has written an open letter to the bosses of the ’Ndrangheta—the...
NPR Looks at China’s “Explosion of Religious Belief”
This week, NPR’s All Things Considered is running a series of reports on the growth of Christianity in China. The first of five episodes, “ In the Land of...
“Our Survival Depends on This”
According to a story on ucanews.com , the website of the Union of Catholic Asian News, Christian leaders in Pakistan are urging their followers not to engage in discussions...
The Happy Prince Comes to New York City
This September, when strollers along New York’s Fifth Avenue reach the southeast corner of Central Park, at 60th Street, they will come across a ruined monument. The glass-reinforced concrete...
In the UK, You Have to Pay to See the Pope (Unless You’re Scottish)
According to a report in The Scotsman , Catholics planning to attend open-air Mass arranged for the Pope’s visit to the UK will face a two-tier system, depending on...
The American Church in the Age of Facebook
The Department of Communications of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a set of social media guidelines for the use of church personnel, defined as “anyone—priest,...
A Coarser Discourse
On July 2, on her blog on the National Public Radio website, NPR ombudsman Alicia Shepard posted a piece with the title “ Taking the Lord’s Name in Vain...
Who Said That?
First Things assistant editor Kevin Staley-Joyce has pointed out that blogger Marcel LeJeune at Aggie Catholics has posted a list of the “ Top 15 Phrases Not Found in...
A Matter of Conscience
A headline on LifeSiteNews.com alerts us to the latest in an ongoing series of similarly troubling stories: “Stalemate after Nebraska Health Board Rejects Conscience Compromise for Christian Psychologists.” According...
