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Annie Banno has a lengthy post detailing what happened yesterday at the Senate subcommittee hearing at which Norma McCorvey and Sandra Cano (Roe and Doe, in case you’re not aware of it)

In China, via AsiaNews I spent 5 years in the seminary of the underground Church.  Life was very difficult and very risky.  Wake-up time was 5 a.m.  After a half hour of meditation, we celebrated Mass and then Lauds.  After breakfast, we would clean up and then our studies would begin.  We would go to…

Disputations alerts us to a (retitled) re-issue of A Memoir of Mary Ann, with an intro by Flannery O’Connor, offered by the Hawthorne Domincans (who, of course, cared for Mary Ann in their Atlanta facility)

In the bad books thread below, someone mentioned the two books by DCTalk, and said they were anti-Catholic. Can anyone who agrees with this explain? I’ve seen them all over the place, of course, but have never really read them.

From the Vatican Information Service: Pope Benedict XVI, returning the visit to the Vatican by Italian President Carlo Azeglio Campi on May 3, today went to the Quirinale Palace, home to Italy’s presidents, where he met privately with Ciampi, following which there were official speeches in the "Salone delle Feste."   The Pope left the…

Again from The Tablet

A profile in The Tablet

Okay, since Get Religion has broken the ice, in a way, I guess I can start talking about the new HBO show The Comeback, created by Michael Patrick King (Sex and the City) and Lisa Kudrow (Friends), the latter of whom stars as Valerie Cherish, has-been former 40-ish sitcom star, who’s been hired as a…

I’m going to steal an idea, so here ya go. Some of you might know that Human Events issued a list of 10 Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Century, much discussed around various blogs. Jimmy Akin was one of the Catholic bloggers who ran a thread on it. What I’m stealing is…

Shangai bishop seeks to heal division He’s been called a counterfeit cleric, a usurper who betrayed the Catholic Church while others languished due to their loyalty to the pope. Shanghai Bishop Aloysius Jin Luxian’s 27 years in prison and labor camps have done little to ease the bitterness of supporters of China’s underground church. Nor…
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