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..you might run into Archbishop Rowan Williams: The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, will spend much of his summer sabbatical at Georgetown University sources in England and Washington confirmed today. Williams, has stayed at the Jesuit university twice previously during seminars of interfaith scholars, and is friendly with the university’s president John J. DeGioia.…

We’re off to the zoo – so any comments won’t appear ’til this afternoon.

Between Joseph (who is flipping through this, grabbed from Daddy’s office, where we’d just dropped of Chris, to be then taken on to the Indianapolis airport) and Michael who evidently has a rather reflexively negative view of humanity. Michael: He’s bad! Joseph (surprised and amused): No, they’re not! They’re saints! They’re good! MIchael: He’s bad!…

The Pope met with a couple of groups yesterday: First, astronomers: This morning Pope Benedict received the faculty and students of the Eleventh Vatican Observatory Summer School in an audience. He exhorted the amateur astronomers to form their faith and their reason so that they can rise to the contemplation of the truth. The Vatican…

Bishop Kurtz of Knoxville has been appointed the new Archbishop of Louisville. Bishop Kurtz was the second bishop of Knoxville (the diocese was created from the Diocese of Nashville in 1988), having served for almost ten years now.  I had never met Bishop Kurtz, but never heard anything but wonderful things about him. When he…

Fr. Dwight Longenecker has just returned from a school mission trip to El Salvador and has reports and photos.

John Allen has many reports on the annual convention of the Catholic Theological Society of America. There’s a lot there… From the group’s outgoing president: (after the jump)

Aimee Milburn, who writes the smart and generally excellent blog Historical Christian has been on a hiatus recently because of coursework, but she’s back with a great post on the unity of the Church: A Protestant reader lately has written to ask about unity, an issue that bothers him as a Protestant, and that bothered…

Recently-ordained permanent Deacon Greg Kandra – also a producer at CBS News – has a blog! Here’s a Busted Halo article about Greg.

Poet (and editor of Poetry)  Christian Witman on a spiritual journey: Though I was raised in a very religious household, until about a year ago I hadn’t been to church in any serious way in more than 20 years. It would be inaccurate to say that I have been indifferent to God in all that…
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