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…that the USCCB plans to do more in the Passion wake than this: The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which has not commented on the movie, plans to reissue its criteria for dramatizing the crucifixion along with papal and church statements on Catholic-Jewish relations. Let us hope that they will be issuing statements, as well,…

Amazing tale of American ingenuity (I guess) in Iraq Army authorizes creation of “The Exorcist Experience” at location where the pseudo-de Chardin – opening sequences were filmed. Granted $5,000 by the Army’s Commanders Emergency Response Program, the soldiers hired unemployed Mosul University students as guides, created a parking lot, opened a police station and revamped…

A Zenit story here. The Holy Father explained this in a message addressed to the participants of an international congress held in Rome on the theme “Natural Regulation of Fertility and the Culture of Life.” The Vatican press office published the text today. “It is clear,” the Pope wrote, “that when one speaks of ‘natural’…

When you hear your local weather person predict that in a couple of days, the temp might reach the mid-30’s, and you are elated, thinking, “Ah! It’s going to be warm!”

Bill T. Jones has a new dance piece. The NYTimes reports: Starting on Tuesday, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company will present the New York premiere of a 45-minute work provocatively titled “Reading, Mercy and the Artificial Nigger.” It is based on “The Artificial Nigger,” a complex and…

Last week, Bishop Accountability had a “Fireside Chat” with Susan Archibald, Jason Berry, David Clohessy, Tom Doyle, and Richard Sipe, all people deeply involved with reporting on, studying and supporting victims of clerical sexual abuse. Here’s the transcript. I found this statement by David Clohessy of SNAP particularly on point:

Peter Steinfels in the NYTimes The religion gap also turns out to be much narrower among Roman Catholics than Protestants. “Weekly Catholic Mass-goers supported Bush by a seven-point margin, in contrast to the 30-point margin among their Protestant counterparts,” Mr. Bole wrote. “When it came to Catholics who reported going to Mass a few times…

Philip Pullman that is. Honestly, people, get over Harry Potter. As I have been saying for ages, this other guy under your radar actually has an explicit anti-theist agenda he works into his books for 12-year olds. As in – God dies, and everyone’s better off. That’s the climax, okay? And in this week’s New…

No, really. I insist. I’m not kidding. While I Was Sleeping My blood ran cold as I watched the video of Terri Schiavo. I shivered at the news that this brain-injured woman was comatose or in a persistent vegetative state while the video seemed to show otherwise. The chill was more than just my journalistic…

Also from John Allen, on some people’s favorite controversy. Rendering the Latin phrase pro multis as “for all” has long been Exhibit A in the traditionalist case against the English translation of the Mass following the Second Vatican Council (1962-65). Not only is it a loose translation, these critics insist, it flirts with heresy by…
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