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A new book is taking a fresh look at one of the landmark events of the 20th century, and the New York Times’ Peter Steinfels offers a preview: Was the Second Vatican Council, as the cultural historian the Rev. John W. O’Malley proposes, “quite possibly the biggest meeting in the history of the world”? Obviously…

You never know what you’ll find around the blogosphere, and one of my recent happy discoveries is a shiny new blog (with an appropriately Celtic green tinge) that belongs to Patrick McNamara, from (surprise!) the Diocese of Brooklyn. Patrick is an archivist for the diocese, and has just launched McNamara’s Blog, a treasure trove of…

The always-interesting John Allen has some insight and context in today’s New York Times regarding the Vatican’s new document Dignitas Personae: The roughly 67 million Catholics in the United States make up nearly one-quarter of the American population, but just 6 percent of the global Catholic total of 1.1 billion. Ninety-four percent of the Catholics…

The controversy over Maryknoll’s Roy Bourgeois shows no signs of quieting down any time soon. A group of nuns has now issued a statement of support for Bourgeois: More than 100 Roman Catholic nuns from 22 religious congregations have written the Vatican protesting the threatened excommunication of Rev. Roy Bourgeois, a Maryknoll priest who publicly…
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