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The always-interesting Rod Dreher has a good chin-scratcher of a post today, about the relative value of Christian kitsch. He describes, in excrutiating detail, a honeymoon pilgrimage he and his bride made to Fatima: A more gaudy, vulgar display of popular piety I’ve never seen. There were (literally) glow-in-the-dark Virgin Marys in shop windows. There…

After causing all sorts of hand-wringing and teeth-grinding over inviting an “womanpriest” to speak, the St. Thomas More Society of San Diego has had second thoughts: Just days before her scheduled appearance before the St. Thomas More Society of San Diego, the group’s board of directors has voted to disinvite “womanpriest” Jane Via. At a…

More than few people I know have wondered: “Why haven’t they made Oscar Romero a saint?” This article attempts to answer that question, and finds some interesting theories: Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, the outspoken church leader who was killed in 1980 as he celebrated Mass, has become as polarizing in death as he…

Baltimore’s beautifully restored basilica seems to have a sparked another kind of restoration: Catholic curiosity. According to Whispers in the Loggia, visitors have been flooding the place — and not just Catholic visitors, either: Yesterday, the cardinal — the Premier See’s apostolic administrator following his retirement as archbishop last month — welcomed the 100,000th visitor…
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