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..for those keeping their eyes on the Anglican situation, things just got hotter as the Very Rev. Mark Lawrence’s election as Bishop of South Carolina didn’t happen. I use the highly precise "didn’t happen" because it appears that even though the votes for consent were there, certain irregularities prompted the Presiding Bishop Jefferts Schori to…

Full text isn’t out, but John Allen reports on this morning’s homily from the Preacher of the Papal Household, Capuchin Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa: Friedrich Nietzsche espoused a pagan lust for power “irreducibly” opposed to Christian non-violence, the Preacher of the Papal Household told the pope this morning, and it’s difficult not to see a connection…

I have spent a few days now going over Sacramentum Caritatis, for it seems now, no purpose, but that’s another story….anyway…some more thoughts. 1) It’s a collegial document, rooted in the Synodal propositions. Some have expressed distress, for example, that there’s no mention of ad orientem in the document. Well, it apparently didn’t come up…

Thanks to Nance for sending this one along: The Anatomical Museum in Modena, Italy, which consists of a collection of simply astonishing obstetrical models realized by Giovan Battista Manfredini in Modena between 1773 and 1775. Almost full-scale models of women in various stages of pregnancy, skin and other layers peeled away (no, not Bodyworks!) ,…

No? What’s the matter with you? Emily Stimson writes at OSV of the latest faddishness given a platform by Oprah Winfrey: According to Jesuit Father Mitch Pacwa, who hosts EWTN Live and writes extensively on the New Age movement, The Secret, far from being some long-lost piece of ancient wisdom, is just the same old…

Brittany, the young woman many of you helped bring down her student loan debt so she could enter the convent…has met her goal. Jen Ambrose is back in China and, as usual, has fascinating and pity posts about life there in general, and life as a Catholic, sometimes, as well. Fr. Philip Powell is on…

Russian President Vladimir Putin, still in Italy, journeyed to Bari , the resting place since the 11th century, of the relics of St. Nicholas of Myra. A translation of an article in an Italian newspaper: He knelt, he kissed the tomb of the patron of Bari, and then he took out his handkerchief, just like…

Last week, there was a federal immigration raid on a leather-goods factory in New Bedford, MA. Here is a timeline of the raid . Jeff Jacoby: SUPPOSE YOU LEARN that a New England manufacturer is exploiting its employees, many of them illegal immigrants, with wretched working conditions. It fines them for talking on the job,…

The winner of the 2007 Templeton Prize has been announced. The prize: How might humankind’s spiritual information and advancement increase by more than a hundredfold? This is the challenge presented by the Templeton Prize. Just as knowledge in science, medicine, cosmology and other disciplines has grown exponentially during the past century, the Templeton Prize honors…

Fr. Z takes you to the spot. Speaking of Rome…This Rome-based blogger has the goods on the milk sold at the Vatican grocery store!
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