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We’ll just post all of today’s pressing Church and law stories at once. LA judge releases first transcripts of grand jury investigation into Archdiocese. Manhattan parish shocked by swindling charges against pastor Interpol seeks molesting priest, church authorities apparently uninterested Canadian Franciscan wanted on criminal charges. Order won’t help the authorities.

This evening, I read John Allen’s newest book, All the Pope’s Men. I’ll havemore thoughts tomorrow, but until then I’ll simply say that I’m intrigued by one question: I just am fascinated to see how the National Catholic Reporter is going to review this book. Because, I’m telling you, if it weren’t written by John…

A rather lengthy article from the Washington Post on “CycleBeads,” developed at Georgetown as a means for women to track their menstrual cycles and chart, after a fashion, fertile and infertile days. The necklace is a tool that helps a woman track her menstrual cycle: Slide the little black gasket onto the fat part of…

In Scranton.</a. Yeah, innocent until proven guilty and all, but I can’t help but be impressed by the accused’s explanation of the contents of his duffel bag. Sick call, perhaps?

Some results of a Zogby poll dealing with Catholics’ views of Bush, stem-cell research and other matters.

Perhaps something is lost in translation, but that’s how one Austrian bishop described the, er, hi-jinks unearthed at an Austrian seminary Roman Catholic leaders in Austria called an emergency meeting today after officials discovered a vast cache of photos and videos allegedly depicting young priests having sex at a seminary. About 40,000 photographs and an…

Parishioners of a closed Detroit parish continue to meet About 70 people sat under trees Sunday to celebrate the Mass on the Grass, as it was called, in between the golf course and the water park in Detroit’s Chandler Park. Seating was strictly BYO chair or blanket. A digital piano played over the hum of…

Missouri congressman to meet with Archbishop Burke Rep. William Lacy Clay, a St. Louis Democrat who favors abortion rights, plans to meet Monday with the archbishop. “I think Archbishop Burke has gone too far; he is now delving into politics,” Clay said in an interview on Friday. “Perhaps the Catholic Church should surrender their 501-C…

Never heard of them before this, but they’ve got people in Omaha riled up. The Christian community of hermits, priests and lay people, called Intercessors of the Lamb, will draw more than a thousand people from across the world Sunday to Qwest Center Omaha for a five-day retreat. Yet local controversy and mystery surrounding the…

A Virginia paper looks at the new bishop and his theological advisor who will embark upon the interesting task, among others, of approving speakers in the diocese. Also at issue are the many diocesan commissions. But within the bounds of orthodoxy, he said, DiLorenzo “is very broad-minded when it comes to the church. No community…
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