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Posting here will be very light for the next three weeks. Take some time to explore some of the many, many fine Catholic blogs out there that offer great news analysis, thoughtful and honest spiritual reflection and excellent writing. That list of Catholic blogs seems to be impressively up to date. Some relatively new entries:…

You’ll find English translations of all the Pope’s Brazil talks at this Zenit page. It looks as if most of them are up except for yesterday’s homily at Mass. Here’s the text of the CELAM address: The text is lengthy, as I noted yesterday, but it is important reading. In it, the Pope lays out…

The Archdiocese of Boston brought in Christopher West to offer a full-day seminar on the Theology of the Body on Saturday – and when I say "Archdiocese" I mean Archdiocese – the talk was co-sponsored by 17 chancery offices, and there were many clergy and religious in attendance, including bishops. Some blogger reports: Dom Bettinelli…

There’s still lots of ongoing commentary about Francis Beckwith’s reversion – more since Alan Cooperman at the WaPo picked up on the story and reported this weekend. Among the wealth of Catholic commentary, this one was particularly moving: Scott at Swept Over reflecting on the difficulties of reversion and conversion when faced with unsympathetic friends…

…the Pope is on his way back to Rome tonight. Full texts of his talks this weekend should be available soon, as well as commentary. There will be a  lot to digest. I didn’t time his speech at the CELAM opening, but it was quite lengthy – so lengthy he gave the bishops and staff…

A moving piece from today’s NYTimes: But I didn’t become pregnant. And after two years of trying, I was tired of feeling hopeless, of trudging down this path not knowing how it would end. I did know, however, how adopting would end: with a baby. So we’d go to China first and then try to…

From TIME, 1967 – "The Underground Church"

Well, tonight was the famed and highly anticipated Quinceañera, the celebration of a young woman’s 15th birthday and entrance into adulthood. I went to the Mass, but not to the party, so unfortunately I can’t tell you how the well-practiced waltzing and  the Cumbia went, although I might get to see a taped-delayed version eventually.…

Today in Rome, a lay-led "Family Day" was held.. Fr. Z has the quite interesting story: Today was "Family Day" in Rome and it was a huge, vast, mind-blowing success.  It was lay organized and attended.  It would have been a success, according to the organizers, had over 100,000 people come to St. John Lateran…

Two talks from Sao Paulo: one homily and an address. The homily at the canonization Mass: When we contemplate the Lord at Mass, raised up by the priest after the consecration of the bread and wine, or when we devoutly adore him exposed in the monstrance, we renew our faith with profound humility, as Frei…
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