Alan Cooperman of the WaPo channels Dr. Teabing in his report on a new exhibit in DC: If 40 percent of Americans refuse to believe that humans evolved from earlier hominids, how many will accept that the book we know as the Bible evolved from earlier texts and was not handed down, in toto, by…

You know how we get all depressed when various non-Catholic and even non-religious entities buy closed Catholic churches? Yeah. Well…I don’t think any of that is as depressing as the story of the new Scientology building in London: The five-storey Italian palazzo building in Queen Victoria Street was originally designed and built in 1866 by…

The perpetual question. The latest: alarm at the declining proportio of RC faculty: The percentage of faculty members who describe themselves as Catholic has dropped to 54 percent from 64 percent two decades ago, so the university is taking steps including the creation of an office to identify possible future Catholic faculty hires. The office…

On Saturday, the Vatican announced the creation of a new eparchy of the Chaldean Rite Catholic Church: Australian and New Zealand Catholics who follow the Chaldean Rite will have their own Oceania eparchy or diocese and bishop, the Holy See announced on Saturday. The President of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, Archbishop Philip Wilson, welcomed…

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