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First, I thought this was most interesting – Pope Benedict has invited Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew not only to attend this fall’s Synod of Bishops, but to address the Synod, as well: During a private conversation when in the Apostolic Palace on March 6, 2008, Pope Benedict XVI extended an invitation to His All Holiness Ecumenical…

…has been found dead. A Chaldean Catholic archbishop kidnapped last month in northern Iraq has been found dead, the information service of the Italian Catholic Church said Thursday. The body of Paulos Faraj Rahho, the archbishop of Mosul, was found near the northern city, the Church said, quoting the auxiliary archbishop of Baghdad, Shlemon Warduni.…

This year’s Templeton Prize has been awarded to Polish physicist and Catholic priest Michal Heller. From the group’s website: Heller, 72, Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Cracow, toiled for years beneath the stifling strictures of the Soviet era. He has become a compelling figure in the realms…

Inside Catholic has posted a slew – a slew -of reactions to the Pew study. The respondants are all over the map, and include a bishop or two. It’s well worth a read, and Inside Catholic has done a great job of collecting this diverse responses. Eve Tushnet’s struck me as one of the wisest.…

In reflecting on the latest misreporting of Catholic news, I’m not seeing this as simple “anti-Catholicism” or “anti-religion.” Because it seems to me that it would be very easy to report the 7 Deadly Sins story with an anti-Catholic angle without doing a whole lot of work: “Archbishop Gianfranco Girotti, in an interview conducted within…

Sandro Magister has a very interesting column today, in which he looks at five recent General Audience talks (remember, the Pope is going through the Greek and Latin Fathers) and pegs the moments when the Pope begins to extemporize. After the Easter season, the pope will dedicate catecheses to other great Patristic figures like Gregory…

It has been 12 days since Mosul’s Chaldean Archbishop was kidnapped: The Iraqi Church is “suffering profoundly” from the “darkness and silence” which reign over the kidnap of Mosul’s Chaldean Archbishop, as anxiety and concern increase among the faithful and their pastors.  A fresh appeal has been launched today by the Chaldean Archbishop of Kirkuk,…

Last week, new US ambassador to the Holy See Mary Ann Glendon presented her credentials to Pope Benedict. Elizabeth Lev writes of the occasion for Zenit with her usual grace and insight – even more so this time, since her mother is, well, Mary Ann Glendon: The door to the Pope’s study opened and we entered in…

It seems that Luther isn’t even one of the two topics being considered for Ratzinger Reunion ’08: The story “does not have any foundation, insofar as no rehabilitation of Luther is foreseen,” Father Lombardi told the Italian news agency ANSA March 8. Vatican officials said the topic of the pope’s annual summer gathering of former…

Yesterday, Pope Benedict visited a youth center in Rome. He ad-libbed his homily, Teresa Benedetta has translated. An excerpt- We can say that all science is one great battle for life, above all, the science of medicine. Ultimately, medicine is a search for an antidote to death, a quest for immortality. But can we find…
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