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The NYTimes looks at the return of crucifixes to the classrooms of some Catholic colleges By 1997, a student group at Georgetown was demanding that crucifixes, by then hung only in historic classroom buildings and each room of the Georgetown University Hospital, be placed back in every classroom. By 1999, there they were, though with…

Haven’t heard from him in a while – Henry Hyde shares his views Describing as distinctly unfortunate the fact that abortion has become the litmus test for Democrats, Hyde said that prestigious Catholics who propound it seem to intimidate some bishops and other leading figures in the church. Not long ago he attended a gathering…

By William Clark, in today’s NYTimes He consistently opposed federal support for the destruction of innocent human life. After the charter expired for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare’s ethical advisory board — which in the 1970’s supported destructive research on human embryos — he began a de facto ban on federal financing of…

Also from the Tablet, a brief account of a pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago Most pilgrims have at least one story like that to tell, and confidence in Divine Providence is one of the many fruits of the camino. I walked a while with 67-year-old Walter, who had had a heart bypass operation last…
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