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From VIS: At 4.30 p.m. today, Benedict XVI travelled to Assisi’s cathedral of San Rufino where he met with priests, deacons, religious, superiors and students of the pontifical seminary of Umbria. In his talk to them, the Holy Father insisted that "it is not enough" for the millions of faithful who come to Assisi to…

The Pope travelled to Assisi yesterday. It was a very busy 11-hour day, with the Pope giving 5 messages – a homily, the Angelus message, a speech to Franciscans, and speach to other priests and religious, and then a message for youth before he left for Rome. I am thinking that eventually the English translations…

As blogged before, Sir John Tavener’s piece The Beautiful Names, will premiere at Westminster Cathedral in London on Tuesday. The piece is a subject of controversy, although as I wrote before, after reading descriptions of the piece, no matter what objections you might have regarding its performance in a Catholic church, it doesn’t strike me…

Incredibly detailed argument for a death/funereal/Last Supper/Eucharistic reading of the last Sopranos scene.

Really great episode of the BBC4 Radio program, on "Renaissance Astrology." It left me with several unanswered questions, but it was an excellent general introduction, setting things in context – which is what all good historical discussions do. You have ’til Wednesday to download, but the shows are available for computer-listening in the archives beyond…

I am currently working through some things regarding another novel. At one point last week, I thought I had come up with an amazing way of combining two novels that I had already partly written, and spent a day working through that and thinking it was brilliant, to follow that the next day with a…

The NYObserver takes a good look: (And by "good" I mean objective and fair. No kidding.) Rudy Giuliani has made it clear that he doesn’t “get into debates with the pope.” The Roman Catholic Church, however, is already debating what to do with the likes of Mr. Giuliani. Pope Benedict XVI and the bishops who…

Well, we have a new favorite series (all of …three books, I think) and an author whose works will call us when we head to the library next time: Bubba and Beau are just very amusing, floppy, expressive cute friends from Texas. And I need to find out more about Kathi Appelt. Sister, it was…

You probably know about the "associations" of immigrants to the US, mostly from Mexico, that organize in order to direct funds to help improve life in their villages and towns back home. This Chicago Tribune article tells the story of the building of a new church in a Mexican village: SAN ANTONIO GUARACHA, Mexico —…

Today, Pope Benedict met with the patriarch of the Cypriot Orthodox Church. From the WaPo: The two men said they had considered the "tensions and divisions" in Cyprus and the conflict in the Middle East, "where war and conflict among peoples risk widening with disastrous consequences." "Our Churches intend to play a role of pacification,…
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