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Check out coverage of last night’s Al Smith Dinner at “Progressive Revival” including links to video and transcripts. Samples: McCAIN: “Even in this room full of proud Manhattan Democrats, I can’t shake that feeling that some people here are pulling for me…I’m delighted to see you here tonight, Hillary,” he added, nodding to Senator Clinton.…

Okay, the Nigerian archbishop was one thing. But when a centenarian sister who has voted just once before in her life–in 1952–is sending in her absentee ballot from Rome to New Hampshire to vote for Obama, well, something’s going on. Read this lovely feature from CNS on U.S. Sister Cecilia Gaudette, a member of the…

Does that make him a bad Catholic? He is African, a Nigerian to be precise. And in this interview with NCR’s John Allen (both men are in Rome for the Synod on the Bible), Archbishop John Onaiyekan of Abuja, Nigeria, said he would “obviously” vote for Barack Obama if he could. That seems consistent with…

That’s the question I ponder at Progressive Revival ahead of tonight’s 63rd Al Smith Dinner tonight in New York…And why Catholics no longer need apply for a meal ticket at this glitziest of Catholic political events…

Hey, the Bible tells me so…After all, it was fruit (though not necessarily an apple) that Eve picked, causing all that trouble. (Just kidding.) But CNS’ Cindy Wooden, covering the Synod on the Word currently going on in the Vatican (see ZENIT and/or John Allen for comprehensive coverage, as well as CNS), takes the occasion…

John Paul I, born Albino Luciani, has unfortunately become something of a forgotten figure. He himself, in typically self-effacing fashion, too the combined name of his two predecessors, John XXIII and Paul VI, and his successor–elected after John Paul I’s 34-day reign–Cardinal Karol Wojtyla of Krakow, took Luciani’s name but made it his own. The…

…And says what I wish more Catholic leaders would about the ugly, angry–and yes, race-baiting–tone of the McCain/Palin campaign. Watch the video from a recent New Yorker campaign symposium…She’s not going to the back of the bus anymore!  

Yes, the Boy Wizard apparently strikes again. His latest spell: enchanting young people (at least here in New York) with his Latin-ish spells to take up the “dead” language. “Dead” being a relative term (pardon the pun), as Pope Benedict XVI et al are busy doing all they can to resuscitate the Vulgar Tongue. Check…

But who are the Good Guys? John McCain and Sarah Palin think they are, and in this piece in the current issue of The Tablet of London, I try to explain the campaign to Britons through the lens of the Old West: Now, in 2008, with terrorists posing a new threat, a new sheriff walks…

Today is the Day of Atonement, which concludes the High Holy Days. The 1901-06 Jewish Encyclopedia (which might be comparable in tone and content to the 1914 Catholic Encyclopedia, but still fascinating if outdated in some respects) is online. Here is part of the entry on Yom Kippur: In rabbinic Judaism the Day of Atonement…
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