Inspiration Faith & Prayer Health & Wellness Entertainment Love & Family
Newsletters Special Offers

Via Media

Dupre of Springfield The Vatican announced Wednesday that Pope John Paul II had accepted Dupre’s resignation, but didn’t release other details. In a brief statement, the diocese said Dupre left his post Tuesday “for a medical facility where he will be receiving treatment.” In May, Dupre had said he was considering retiring due to ill…

James Carroll in the Boston Globe But an afternoon’s meditation at the place where Christians have remembered the death of Jesus for 1,600 years raises the question of whether we have more broadly misused that memory. This shrine memorializing Golgotha is, in fact, a kind of side chapel in a much larger church that gives…

In an unsurprising way. Marijuana priest under investigation for something else now Assistant Summit County Prosecutor Mary Ann Kovach said Tuesday that she plans to meet with police to determine if sex charges should be brought against Rev. Richard Arko, 40. The allegation surfaced during a court appearance by Andrew J. Smith, 25, of nearby…

At last, a very detailed look at the kerfuffle over the Padre Pio Centre in PA

Is what I’ve written so far this morning (You can probably hear my husband saying, from where ever you are, “This was supposed to be a short book!”) I need to do another chapter this afternoon. Then I will be very, very happy. So…adios and apologies.

Maine: Appointed Bishop Richard Joseph Malone, auxiliary of Boston, U.S.A., asbishop of Portland (area 85,541, population 1,274,923, Catholics 213,680, priests 211, permanent deacons 23, religious 471), U.S.A. The bishop-elect was born in Salem, U.S.A. in 1946 and was ordained a priest in 1972. The Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the…

From apologist extraordinaire Dave Armstrong.

Here at Catholic Exchange. A note about all the qualifications at the beginning of the piece. See, when you write for the Catholic press (this piece, abbreviated, originally ran in OSV), you have to fight against the deeply-held sentiment for many of your readers that watching anything rated PG-13 or above is a sure ocassion…

I’ll be doing my usual gig on HMS radio today, discussing my humble contribution to the new Heart, Mind and Strength “University for Living”, which takes the form of a 6-week course on the Parables of Jesus. Here’s the press release for HMSU: Heart Mind & Strength University for Living (www.HMSU.com), the first, online, adult…

Not online yet, and not even on the newstands, but the cover article in the next issue of The Atlantic looks like a winner, if by “winner” you mean provocative: How Serfdom Saved the Women’s Movement Because of “the unmade beds, the children with their endless questions, the tendency of a good fight over housework…
archives most recent
search this blog
More from Beliefnet and our partners