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Tragic: Portugal’s parliament approved a bill allowing abortions until the 10th week of pregnancy, after a referendum on easing restrictions on the procedure was nullified because of low turnout. Currently, abortions in the mostly Catholic country are allowed in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy only if a woman’s health is at risk. In cases…

Consider this a reference post. Tuesday (at 7am Eastern, not 6am…forgot about the time change), the Pope’s Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation, Sacramentum Caritatis ("Sacrament of Charity" or "Sacrament of Love"), a final document based on the reflections of the fall, 2005 Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist, will be issued. The first link there will take…

Michael and I went to see this at a late show last night – kind of crazy considering the time change and since there is no such thing as sleeping in at this house… I was surprised it was still playing after about three weeks here (and in a regular cineplex), but for sure it…

Peter Manseau has an excellent piece in the Washington Post Magazine about Archbishop Milingo Photos here Milingo began to clash openly with those he considered his enemies. In November 1996, speaking at a conference in Rome, he declared that Satanism was being practiced at the highest levels of the Vatican. He did not name names,…

This week’s New Yorker fiction offering – I liked it. You might go into it with less traditional expectations of a short story, and just approach it in a more meditative kind of space. Written by Tatyana Tolstaya, translated from the Russian, it is about Ravenna, mosaics, a blind man, and time. And maybe heaven.

I’m going to hold comments for moderation now, instead of closing off comments on posts when I’m not around. I think. I’ll try and see how much time it takes. So don’t post your comment a million times. It may take a while for it appear – like on a day like this, several hours..!

….one of the places Benedict will visit in Brazil, via Aid to the Church in Need: Some 2 000 former drug addicts are now preparing to receive Pope Benedict XVI in the men´s centre of Pedrinhas, close to Guaratingueta. The Pope’s visit is scheduled May 12, 2007, a day before the V General Conference of the…

Many thanks to reader Matthew who passed along this article from TIME about the 1935 Eucharistic Congress in Cleveland. It really is a fascinating snapshot of the Catholicism of the period, as well as the secular world’s take on it, seeing it all through the eyes of TIME. The article’s focus is really Patrick Joseph…

Wow. Well, this  should be a surprise to exactly no one, but … watch this. (Source) (Actually, it might be better to just go here – look the right side at "Hot Video." ‘Cause it’s hot. – "Judgment Day for Sean." In short: Sean Hannity running all over Fr. Tom Euteneuer of Human Life International…

Steven Greydanus reviews Into the Great Silence No interview footage furnishes psychological insights into the dispositions or motivations of the monks (apart from a single brief homiletical reflection late in the film). In contrast to nearly wordless nature documentaries like Atlantis, Microcosmos and Winged Migration — or for that matter essentially the whole history of…
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