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From the Guardian, UK: Pope Benedict XVI, as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, was a professor of fundamental theology, not, as we said in ‘We want to show Benedict we love him’ (News, last week) professor of fundamentalist theology. Fundamental theology deals with the foundations of Roman Catholic teaching, while fundamentalist theology is a North American theological…

Continuing our Renaissance theme…a NYT book review of a biography, not of Lucrezia Borgia, as you might expect, but of Felice Della Rovere, daughter of Julius II. In more than one sense Lucrezia Borgia and her father, Alexander VI, had a decisive impact on Felice’s relationship with Julius II. Alexander’s besotted devotion to his beautiful…

Decisions provokes anger Federal drug regulators on Friday once again delayed making a decision on allowing over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill, saying they needed more time to gather public reaction to the plan and to figure out how they could enforce it. The announcement infuriated Democrats and abortion rights advocates, who said the Food…

David Morrison of Sed Contra has many interesting posts of late, including a couple on American Catholic history that shine light into some little-known corners. Maureen O’Brien writes about the new hot genre in Russian fantasy literature: sacral fantastica: At the same time, sacral fantastica began to turn into a marketing category, and the Sacral…
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