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The continuing tragedy: For many Christians in Iraq, flight is the only option. The United Nations estimates that about 40 percent of the more than million Iraqis who have emigrated are Christians. That’s an astounding number for a group who made up perhaps four percent of Iraq’s pre-war population. Some Iraqi Christians believe the number…

Orthodox monks state their opinion: Monks at a reclusive Orthodox sanctuary criticized a landmark visit to the Vatican by Greece’s church leader Archbishop Christodoulos last month as endangering centuries-old church traditions. "We bear a heavy responsibility before the faithful people of Greece who regard (us) as being the inviolable guardian of holy tradition," the monks…

At the Walters in Baltimore, through the end of January: For the first time, the Walters will display its superb collection of illuminated missals, liturgical manuscripts and printed books for the celebration of the Catholic Mass.  This exhibition of manuscripts, printed books, and altar furnishings will investigate the changing imagery of the missal in the…

…we’re talking to you! Fr. Jim points us to a brief entry at the Reason blog (ironically) about the medieval celebrations, taking place during the Octave of Christmas, coinciding mostly with the Feast of the Circumcision, in which social – particularly ecclesiological – order was reversed and a "Lord of Misrule" was crowned. From the…
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