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The Da Vinci Diet?

No link as yet, this is from the Vatican News Service morning email: VATICAN CITY, JUN 15, 2004 (VIS) – This morning in the Holy See Press Office, Cardinals Roger Etchegaray, former president of the Central Committee of the Grand Jubilee of the Year 2000, Jean-Louis Tauran, archivist and librarian of Holy Roman Church and…

Yesterday, we went back and forth to Detroit to see the mighty “Fish Marlins” beat the Tigers. One out of three ain’t bad. It was a good game, I got some sun, Joseph got very sweaty. This will be a busy week: I have a project I really need to finish up today, then this…

Is time running out? In Kateri’s case, the Pope waived the miracle requirement before beatification. It doesn’t appear he will do it again. “We have, since 1980, needed one miracle performed through her intercession,” said the Rev. John Paret, the Jesuit who is vice postulator of the Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha League, headquartered at the Auriesville…

A wire service article about conflicts over hospital policies – when patients’ families want continued treatment, and medical professionals don’t. Backed by court orders and medical ethicists, hospitals have adopted little-known policies that declare “doctors know best” in deciding when to withhold or withdraw potentially life-saving treatments. As a result, a patient’s final wishes may…

With a little tweaking, this NYTimes article could run in The Onion, although what the author of the article fails to realize is that the Church is universal, and mass intentions go all over the place as a matter of course…if I donate to a missionary order and request Mass intentions, that means a priest…

In Friday’s Word from Rome, John Allen reported that President Bush had asked the Pope for help – asking him to push the US bishops to speak out more on certain issues, particularly same-sex marriage. The NYTimes picks up the story today. But some with experience in Roman Catholic politics said they were hardly shocked.…

In the Dem response to the Saturday presidential radio address, Kerry advocated more stem cell research, failing to distinguish between adult and embryonic cells and calling for us all to be brave in the face of our ethical concerns. Jeff Miller covers it at CKW

A piece by Fr. Michael Heintz, who is the rector of St. Matthew Cathedral in South Bend. Augustine’s “City of God” (a hefty tome that nonetheless repays the reader’s efforts) offered a much less sanguine view of the possibilities of a “Christian Empire.” One of Augustine’s clear purposes in writing was to convince believers that…
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