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Shadows of war: The Democratic Republic of Congo is on the brink of full-scale war unless the government and international community intervene, said a Caritas official and the archbishop of Bukavu, Congo. Bruno Miteyo, director of Caritas Congo, told Catholic News Service that "all the elements are there to bring the country to war." Caritas…

Dimitri Cavalli in the WSJ about excommunication threats, past and present: Rummel and Archbishop Joseph Ritter of St. Louis had previously used the threat of excommunication to suppress lay Catholic opposition to civil rights. In 1956, Rummel warned Catholic lawmakers in the state legislature that they would face excommunication if they voted to mandate the…

The "Ninevah Plan" is a schema to purportedly protect some Christian populations in Iraq – specifically, this: The Plains of Nineveh contain a series of Christian villages (approximately twenty), in which most people speak the Syriac dialect known as “Sureth.”  The area has always been under the jurisdiction of Mosul – about 30-25 km away…

Of anti-Christian violence in Iraq? The mainstream media can’t get enough of the sectarian violence between the Shiites, the Sunnis, and the Kurds in Iraq. But one kind of sectarian violence that has consistently been under-reported since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 is the persecution of Iraq’s native Christian population. A Catholic News…

Just spent 30 minutes on a post. Browser froze. Post gone. I’ll start over…gradually. Rod Dreher and Terry Mattingly are both in Istanbul for a conference, and reporting on various religious and cultural issues. Red Terror on the Amber Coast – a trailer for a Dominican-produced documentary on the Soviet occupation of Lithuania Pontifications is…

A Chaldean priest seems to have been kidnapped in Baghdad: Another Chaldean priest was abducted in Baghdad today. Fr Hani Abdel Ahad, in his early 30s, was taken in a north-eastern section of the capital called Suleikh along with five boys who were going with him to visit the city’s minor seminary. The incident has…

Make it 16. Pending editing. Whew. Someone once said that no one ever actually finishes writing a novel – you just give up. This wasn’t a novel, but the subject is potentially so vast, and I was charged with writing something short and sort of on the inspirational side of things, the same feeling applies.…

At the funeral: Chaldean Catholic Bishop Paulos Faraj Rahho of Mosul was forced to pause during the funeral of an Iraqi priest and three subdeacons due to the weeping of so many in the congregation. Father Ragheed Aziz Ganni and subdeacons Basman Yousef Daoud, Wadid Hanna and Ghasan Bida Wid were buried after the June…

On the jumper: A 27-year-old German man was forced to undergo immediate psychiatric treatment June 6 after he jumped over a barrier in St. Peter’s Square and reached the back of the open jeep in which Pope Benedict XVI was riding. Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, refused to release the man’s name but said…

I’ll just make this a catch-all post. First, today’s General Audience: Rich countries must increase their aid to the development of the world’s nations in need, by upholding the right to education which is the real platform for progress among peoples; the Church knows this well from its lengthy experience at the forefront in this…
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