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My father has been updating his journal of their Rome trip, but I’ve been negligent about posting them…so here we go. I’m going to work backwards because I’m lazy, and some will just be posted in excerpts –  but here goes – May 18, their adventures in the seat of Italian government:

He passed away last night, at the age of 88. You know him, of course, as a Civil War historian and narrator of the Ken Burns series. Some of us also know him as one of the late Walker Percy’s closest friends – they met when they were teenagers in Greenville, Mississippi, Walker having moved…

Inspired by a comment. With real, live destructive cults (see below) around, why do fiction writers (see.um…you know who)..have to create conspiracies where there are none? I mean, in some cases, truth really is stranger than fiction. But I guess Truth has better lawyers, too…

In listening to Talk of the Nation on NPR yesterday, I heard one of the participants in the discussion on the 10 Commandments ruling opine that secularists were spending a lot of energy on religious symbols cases, and not coming out with any clear victories on them, and meanwhile they were losing in the more…

Scientology Day, baby! I guess we can all be grateful to Tom Cruise for bringing this fine "religion" into its most recent moment of glory. Katie Holmes is from Toledo, so the Toledo paper took a look last week: The open-ended view of God means that Scientology does not contradict any other religious tradition and…

Also from VIS – it’s not up on their page yet, but will be soon. If you’d like to receive their daily bulletins in your email, all you have to do is click on the link on this page. Archbishop Angelo Amato S.D.B., secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, explained that…

From the Vatican Information Service: VATICAN CITY, JUN 28, 2005 (VIS) – This morning in the Clementine Hall, Benedict XVI presided at a liturgical celebration for the official presentation of the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.   At the beginning of the ceremony, one of the cardinals who had been part of…

A lengthy article from Chiesa from Sandro Magister and another writer on the Italian Embryo Referendum

In Q & A format…In Italian Here’s the text of the Pope’s speech presenting the Compendium…also in Italian Here’s the English

From the website Catholic Culture: Pope John Paul II has been criticized both before and after his death as being a poor ruler because he was a poor disciplinarian. To say that he was a poor disciplinarian implies at least one of three things. First, the Pope was unaware of the need for discipline, out…
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