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The Archdiocese of Atlanta welcomed a new batch of deacons a couple weeks back — and the Georgia Bulletin was there. The remarks by Archbishop Gregory struck me as especially vital, and necessary: Twenty robes and neatly folded stoles rested on the marble communion rail. The buzz of chatter and laughter signaled a growing crowd…

There’s been a lot of hand-wringing and teeth-gnashing, on all sides, over the Pope’s revision of a prayer in the Tridentine Rite which mentions the Jews. Now, a leading rabbi has offered his thoughts in the Jewish Daily Forward: In this day and age, Jews should not be overreacting to Pope Benedict XVI’s revision of…

Can a Catholic support Barack Obama for president? Recently, the conservative Catholic law professor Douglas A. Kmiec raised that question online at Slate — and he caught considerable flack for it from, most notably, Deal Hudson. Kmiec decided to tackle the issue head-on, at Catholic Online. Here, he explains his misgivings about John McCain: Part…

A commentator over at Bloomberg is suggesting that the real problem facing the poor of the Philippines is that they’re having too many babies. And he blames the Church. So, of course, he has a latex solution: “The most unprepossessing candidate for the Holy Grail of prosperity is seven inches of latex: a condom,” Easterly,…
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