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Thanks to Matthew at Holy Whapping for a nice review of Loyola’s edition of Helena Amazon link Loyola link over there on the right – click on the logo.

Over at Against the Grain, Christopher has a long post about the concept and term "preferential option for the poor" Catholics who are the least bit aquainted with the social doctrine of the Church have encountered the term "preferential option for the poor." According to Charles Curran, the phrase has its origins in the "liberation…

Legal and not (from a few weeks ago, but just ran across it via Godspy) (Context: murder of police officer by an illegal immigrant) Americans have a right to secure borders, especially in a time of anti-American violence. We have a right to reasonably regulate our immigration policies. We have a right to exclude criminals…

..or is it? Who knows. But this Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes things is cree-py.

Brandon Evans of the Criterion sends along a link to the CNN story on Cardinal Sin and wonders about the caption under the photo. So this is news? This blogger has a good quote from Cardinal Sin and more links

At the Corner HATE SPEECH? [John Derbyshire]A reader has chid me for using the term "Papist" in a private exchange, to refer to Roman Catholics (of which he is one). Is this unacceptable? I am always way behind the curve on this stuff. I caused a stunned silence in company a few years ago by…

Vatican-sponsored conference on women on the streets The Pontifical Council for Migrants and Travelers hosted its first international meeting June 20-21 on "The Pastoral Care for the Liberation of Street Women." Fifty women and men who are active in offering care and assistance to prostitutes attended the conference to offer their reflections and ideas. "Everyone…

Steve Skojec has thoughts.. I’m not alone. Young Catholics feel hungry because we’re being fed candy when we want steak. We feel talked down to because the faith has been made juvenile to appeal to our pop-culture interests. We are immersed in pop-culture, every day. We want to know that our religion transcends fashion and…

I posted the story about my son, mostly as a meditation on irony and unintended consequences, not as a paean to walking out of Mass. Given the fact that he left to simply head over to the (later) Mass he usually attends anyway, I didn’t see that as the focus. The focus was, as I…

On the DVD release of a Bresson film.. When the Museum of Modern Art announced "The Hidden God," a major faith and film series featuring titles as diverse as Magnolia, Andrei Roublev and Groundhog Day, the curators said the one film which clearly had to be included was Robert Bresson’s masterpiece, Au Hasard Balthazar. The…
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