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This columnist in Michigan, Julie Mack, takes another look at what’s happening in Catholic schools (during National Catholic School Week), and suggests its part of a larger trend: I recently read that enrollment in American Catholic schools peaked in 1965, when the system had 12,000 schools serving 5 million students. I was among that 5…

The New York Times runs a blog called “Proof,” described as being about “alcohol and American life.” One of the contributors is author Jim Atkinson, a recovering alcoholic. And this week, he wrote about religion’s role in his sobriety: My own recovery did not require me to become a born-again Christian or a Bible thumper…

Those controversial remarks by SSPX’s Bishop Richard Williamson have prompted this response from fellow SSPXer (and his superior), Bishop Bernard Fellay: The affirmations of Bishop Williamson do not reflect in any sense the position of our Fraternity. For this reason I have prohibited him, pending any new orders, from taking any public positions on political…

Anyone curious about what SSPX thinks about the Pope’s recent decision to lift their bishops’ excommunication should take a glance at the SSPX literature. They contend they were… a) never really excommunicated. b) not really in schism. But wait, there’s more. They are looking forward to “talks” (yes, really, the scare quotes are theirs) in…
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