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In case you don’t know, Dana Gioia is a poet, and head of the National Endowment for the Arts, the government agency in the spotlight this week, not for Mapplethorpes and Sprinkles, but because President Bush has proposed doubling its budget. More Drunken Sailor Behavior or justifiable this time? Much of the conversation about this…

Church at the crossroads At least three matters of global consequence are shaping the pre-conclave discussions among key cardinal-electors. Collapsing Catholicism in Europe. Europe is committing demographic suicide, as no Western European state has a replacement level birth rate. At the same time, Catholic practice in Western Europe is at historical lows. Churchmen believe these…

What South African bishops do. Kind of an interesting contrast. South African Catholics were called on to send a “Tip for Trevor”, advising Finance Minister Trevor Manuel to introduce a basic income grant for the poor in his forthcoming Budget. In a media statement, Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference spokesman Father Mathibela Sebothoma said the…

Traditionalists let loose on Pope Fellay, Lefebvre’s successor, spoke at a news conference at a hotel near the Vatican to present a 50-page traditionalist’s assessment of John Paul’s 25-year papacy. The booklet said ecumenism, as dialogue and cooperation among Christian churches is known, “has transformed the Holy City that is the Church into a city…

I mean, really. It’s hard to figure out exactly what PBS is anymore. It seems as if its evening programming alternates between three-hour specials on the construction of a bridge and five-hour beg-a-thons framed around some guywith wavy hair playing the violin in front of adoring crowds, which is strange since he’s playing with an…

I’m going to start this thread, and then continue to link to it after it moves off the front page in a couple of days. What I want you to post here is news about events/activities/publications that you’ve seen from Catholic sources and organizations seeking to utilize the Passion Moment as an evangelical and catechetical…

…against the New Mexico priest who angered a family by his eulogy. Details at CT’s Weblog Nine relatives of former town councilman Ben Martinez had sued, saying that in the funeral eulogy, Mansfield called Martinez “lukewarm in his faith,” and that “the Lord vomited people like Ben out of his mouth to Hell.” As The…

No, this isn’t about John Kerry. It’s actually far more serious, a quite interesting LA Times article about the possibilities of facial transplants. Of course the first thing I thought was, “What if the recipient’s body rejects a transplant? What then? Wha…?” The article sort of answered it, but not really. They say they’re close,…

There is still a little fallout…er…falling regarding that America article on the “New Apologists.” My original post is here. Mark has commented. So has Lane Core So has Bill Cork, who has in turned been fisked by Dale Price and responded. I’m not one to enter into BlogWarfare, but this is all worth commenting on…

When even Tom Shales thinks Lines Have Been Crossed.
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