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This week in his "Word from Rome" column, John Allen reflects on the papal stylings of Benedict: Benedict XVI, in the language of the guild, is largely a pope for the inside pages. In Poland, I found myself wondering if this "less is more" style could have ecclesiological consequences — if Benedict’s way of exercising…

A fourth of all European seminarians are Polish About a quarter of all young men training to become Roman Catholic priests in Europe are Polish. And Polish priests are increasingly in demand to plug the gaps in the rest of the continent. At the seminary in Lublin, in south-eastern Poland, there are 171 young men…

An NCR(egister) article on the Pope and the canonization process: The process of canonization “is really about faith and therefore must be ruled by theological judgments,” according to Dominican Father Gabriel O’Donnell. Postulator for the cause of Knights of Columbus founder Father Michael McGivney, Father O’Donnell said Benedict’s letter is “less about slowing things down…

An article by Benjamin D. Wiker in Crisis magazine: Judged by the results, it was hard to get an angle on an encyclical that appeared to have no edges, a mere round and happy affirmation of love. Even worse, it seemed to some on the left that he’d actually joined their side. Liberal Bishop Francis…
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