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A marvelous story from  a priest with origins in Sri Lanka: Fifth of six brothers, his was a poor Buddhist family and early on his lost his father. From adolescence Nihal desired to become a monk: “Each and every month I would go to the temple in an attempt to gain entrance to religious life. …

Via PRF: the first ten days of book sales: VATICAN CITY, April 27 (ASCA) – Sales of Pope Benedict’s JESUS OF NAZARETH have been tremendous. Radio Vatricasn reports that 10 days since it first came out, tHE book has ALready sold 510,000 in Italy, 480,000 in Germany and about 100,000 in Poland. These were the…

Inside the Vatican has an interview w/Sr. Sara Butler of the ITC on Limbo. On Sr. Sara: In hopes of shedding some light on this controversial theological matter, Inside the Vatican’s Andrew Rabel, an Australian Catholic writer, in late April conducted an exclusive interview with an International Theological Commission member, the American nun Sr. Sara…

John Allen’s been reading the Italian edition of Pope Benedict’s book: The English edition of Jesus of Nazareth goes on sale from Doubleday May 15, and an excerpt will be carried in the May 11 edition of Newsweek. (That should make the pope, for at least a week, no longer "invisible," as Newsweek described him…

From today’s WSJ: Throughout his life, even when he briefly held a position as Soviet commissar for art in Vitebsk after the Revolution, Chagall was drawn to what we might call a "pre-Christian" Jesus, a Jewish Jesus who would not have understood himself as in any way existing beyond the boundaries of the normative Judaism…

The "Lineamenta " or..well, plan for the next Synod of Bishops has been announced: In the Holy See Press Office at midday today, Archbishop Nikola Eterovic, secretary general of the Synod of Bishops, presented the "Lineamenta" for the Twelfth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, due to be held from October 5 to…

I missed this a few days ago – in the NYTimes, an article about the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal: (which oddly, doesn’t mention Fr. Groeschel, profiled in the Times a couple of months ago) IT was 9 o’clock on a wintry Saturday night, and in the dimly lighted basement of Our Lady of Good…

There has been quite a discussion going on in other blogs about evangelism and Catholicism. I have been thinking I needed to bring them up, but have never quite gotten around to it. But now, reading a post from another blog, I see why. That last blog post is what’s needed to wrap it up.…

At his blog, Morning’s Minion draws our attention to an interesting Supremem Court case – 80 years old. The case was Virginia’s involuntary sterilization of the mentally retarded. 8 of the justices upheld the statute, with a majority opinion written by Holmes, an opinion that appealed largely to utilitarian concerns. MM comments: There was a…

Two pope pieces: John Allen on Benedict as a "pope of surprises," using Limbo and the Motu Proprio as his starting points: So, what do these two very personal touches of Benedict XVI have to teach us about his papacy? At first blush, they seem mutually contradictory. One has been taken as a sign of…
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