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A reader writes: Our Catholic school has required parents to complete a ‘"Safe Enviroment" training for the past couple of years.  I have had very mixed feelings about the program.  I completely agree that volunteers who work regularly with children should be trained in recognizing and preventing child abuse (the need for which was exemplified…

Every day, Wikipedia features one of its articles on the front page of the site. Today the featured article is on Gregorian Chant – Jeffrey Tucker of the New Liturgical Movement and, of course, many others have been involved in compiling the entry. He says of the experience: To me this entry alone is enough…

The big bioethics/research story today is the possibility of extracting stem cells from embryos without destroying the embryos. The new technique would be performed on a two-day-old embryo, after the fertilized egg has divided into eight cells, known as blastomeres. In fertility clinics, where the embryo is available outside the woman in the normal course…

Just a few minutes ago, in the car on the way to school, I remarked that today was the feast of St. Bartholomew (Nathaneal in John’s Gospel) , and I reminded Katie of the series of statues of the apostles in St. John Lateran – with each of them holding, as they always do, some…
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