In All Things

Robert Mickens at the Tablet tipped us off to the official press release from the Vatican on the pope s extraordinary meeting with the Irish bishops over the sexual abuse crisis nbsp It is also on the Holy See s website PRESS RELEASE ON THE MEETING OF THE HOLY FATHER WITH SENIOR IRISH BISHOPS AND

Former Vice President Richard Dick Cheney rsquo s interview on ABC over the weekend was fascinating Cheney has become one of the most vocal critics of the Obama administration unlike former President George W Bush who understands that such attacks are a task usually assigned to those who have n

A controversy is brewing over a series of billboards in Georgia that link abortion and race The billboards feature the face of a small black child with the words Black children are an endangered species above the photo and the website address TooManyAborted com below It is hard to imagine a mo

A top-secret Vatican delegation which everyone seemed to know about was in the UK last week to plan the details of the papal visit expected 16-19 September There ll be no official announcement of the itinerary until at least March but this is what has been sketched in Thurs 16 Pope received by

We do not know how to deal with death Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster told a congregation of the sick yesterday But he added fear cannot be our guide He sees fear of death and of the pain and indignity which precede it as the real reason for the current drive to legalise assisted

The Washington Post s Magazine this weekend has a profile of Pat McGuire who has been President of Trinity College for twenty years As the article recalls at an event in 2007 Post chairman Donald Graham said of McGuire How often can you say of a university president nbsp Without her that

Cambridge MA One of the benefits of blogging regularly for America is that I can write what I want including pieces under somewhat arcane headings such as the one above a continuation of my series on my seminar this semester on devotional poetry in the south Indian Tamil language nbsp nbsp n

Perhaps it is the snow Yes here in the Imperial City of Washington we have been buried under consecutive snow storms that have disrupted life To cite a small example this morning the last three days rsquo issues of the Post were delivered and we have not gotten mail since Monday morning So

This clip was hard to find and it may not be up for long nbsp Enjoy it or ponder it while it lasts nbsp Oprah visits Dominican nuns nbsp It s part one of four the rest can be seen on Youtube by clicking on the lower right hand corner of this video going to Youtube and then checking out the

The Vatican has admitted shelving a theological report into the morality of the use of condoms to prevent Aids reports The Tablet s Rome correspondent Robert Mickens The study was undertaken in 2006 by the Pontifical Council for Health Care and submitted to the Congregation for the Doctrine of t