In All Things

Yesterday the Vatican appointed a new auxiliary for Washington D C forty-five year old Bishop-elect Barry Knestout This is a big feather in the cap of D C rsquo s Archbishop Donald Wuerl Getting such a young auxiliary through Rome rsquo s sometimes arcane appointment process is not easy Wuerl

Spooky I suggest in this blog that the Archbishop of Canterbury take bishops to Lourdes — and then he does Then a few weeks ago I come up with something called CathPod only to learn now that nbsp about that time an application called iBreviary was being launched Report in Italian here nbsp

CCHD the Catholic Campaign for Human Development has been under attack lately–unfairly nbsp David Gibson nbsp sets the record straight in an online piece for America here Gibson nbsp In nbsp a denunciation that America blogger Austen Ivereigh declared ldquo manifestly unjust rdquo Fat

On Sunday last I had a conversation with a devout Catholic woman 16 years of Catholic schooling niece of a revered deceased Jesuit of the California province nurse at a Veterans Administration hospital communion minister at her parish who was hopping mad at the California bishops for funding a

This surprising story reported by nbsp AP just came across our desk nbsp nbsp A snip The Roman Catholic archbishop of San Salvador opposes reopening the prosecution of Salvadoran officials in the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests the cleric said Sunday nbsp Human rights activists have pu

There are many reasons to admire Abraham Lincoln His ability to bring former political rivals into the Cabinet and to manage their ambitions was one of his most remarkable political accomplishments Whether Lincoln merely wanted to keep his enemies closer than his friends or whether he saw unique p

Here s an editorial from the LA Times on the Vatican s new directive on psychological screening of gay candidates for the priesthood nbsp And before you object to the nbsp idea of a secular paper editorializing on church affairs remember that were it not for The Boston Globe the church would

Dear Prelates and Priests I have a suggestion about how to deal with the election of Barack Obama Keep still and be quiet Father Jay Scott Newman of St Mary rsquo s in Greenville South Carolina was all over the news for suggesting that parishioners who voted for Obama needed to go to confession

It may be worthwhile checking Matt Malone s post on nbsp religion s role nbsp in the election nbsp against the 2004 interview President-elect Obama gave to the Chicago-Sun Times in which he talks of his religious faith Beliefnet has posted uncut the transcript of the hour Obama spent nbsp wi