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There’s a reader forum going at Avenire, the newspaper of the Italian bishops’ conference. The forum offers reader reactions to Benedict’s book on Jesus.

Catching up on some saints and what some Catholic bloggers have been saying about them: Today, of course, is the feast of St. Catherine of Siena. Naturally enough, a couple of good posts are to be found at the blog of the St. Catherine of Siena Institute: First an intro post by Sherry Weddell on…

Today, Pope Benedict ordained 22 men to the priesthood at St. Peter’s. AsiaNews reports: Twenty two young men from Italy, but also from the Philippines, Peru, Ecuador, Dominican Republic and Slovakia were ordained today by Benedict XVI in a suggestive ceremony in St Peters Basilica, concelebrated by Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the Pope’s Vicar for the…

The Dispatch reports on the fund-raiser for Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital: Archbishop Raymond Burke made it to the Fox Theatre Saturday — but only as a punch line. When Bob Costas, the evening’s host, walked onto the stage he scanned the crowd, gazing into the back rows of the upper balcony before breaking the prolonged…

Well, many of you have seen the cover, but here’s Teresa Benedetto’s translation of the article about the Pope in this month’s German edition of Vanity Fair written by Peter Seewald. (Oh..one more prepositional phrase in that sentence! Come on!) (Seewald is the journalist who interviewed then-Cardinal Ratzinger for two books, Salt of the Earth…

(Yes, he went down it about fifteen times. And wanted more.)

I actually have a stack of books to review here, but before I attempt to get to them, a quick, light one. (First, a note on how I pick books to read. I have scads of religion/history books that are always waiting, but every time we go to the library – once a week during…

B-A-N-A-N-A-S! In which we do a TV wrap-up post. After a good start on the first episode of The Sopranos, I have failed to give us space to discuss subsequent eps. Mea Culpa. I’m just going to say that I’ve been so impressed so far. These first three episodes have been stellar, although I did…

Put this one on your Netflix/Blockbuster/Whatever list: Not of This World, a 1999 Italian film about a religious sister who finds a baby in a park. Really. I’m not going to go into detail on the plot, because a great deal of the pleasure of the film is just that – the plot that unfolds…

Chris Johnson posts a contribution – the comments are a necessary read, as folks sort through such a possibility. I have a hard time seeing it myself, but…who knows! By-the-by, I’m pulling this from the comments over there, not because it directly pertains, but because I was impressed by the clarity and simplicity: Of course…
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