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for Heather Price and her baby.

Because the law profs at Mirror of Justice are blogging fast and furiously – always rich, thought-provoking stuff – on France and Catholic social theory, commencement speeches, excommunication and more.

The text of his message this evening. 6. The Gospel assures us that the young man who went to meet Jesus was very rich. We may understand this wealth not only on the material level. Youth itself is a singular treasure. We have to discover it and to value it. Jesus appreciated it so much…

Fr. Stephanos, OSB on "When Paradise was Purgatory" – anti-Catholic discrimination in Hawaii: In 1820, Congregationalist Protestants from New England were the first Christian missionaries to arrive in Hawaii. In April 1824, the queen regent Kaahumanu publicly acknowledged her embrace of Congregationalist Protestant Christianity. She received baptism on 5 December 1825. The first Catholic priests…

I’ve been listening, fairly regularly, to the BBC4 radio program In Our Time. Each week, host Melvyn Bragg gathers three scholars on a given subject, and they have a usually fascinating and very educational conversation. You can download each episode for a week after the initial airing. I might be wrong about this, but I…

Dom’s got it figured out. My head hurts.

Maclin Horton watched it and summarizes. Your thoughts?

Why do Evangelicals convert to Catholicism? An interesting and fair-minded blog post. On the video front – A new edition of "That Catholic Show" is up – another well-done ep, focusing on candles and light this time. From some seminarians at Mundelein for their annual talent show: Deacon Payne – Seminary Formationator. Funny. I worried…

This will be a massive links post. The links are not related, so don’t attempt to draw any dots. As I’ve said before, I don’t expect to do much more than this for a few weeks. Well, I take that back. Some are related. Over the past few days there have been a rash of…

A transcript, via John Allen: Sixth Question (from RAI Television, Italy):In your book Jesus of Nazareth, you referred to a dramatic crisis of faith. In Latin America, maybe what we see is not so much a crisis of faith as a landslide. Liberation theology was substituted by the theology of the Protestant sects, which promise…
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