June 19th, 2007
This just in from the Catholic News Agency:
London, Jun 19, 2007 / 11:49 am (CNA).- The British Secret Service, MI6, has published an alarming report in the magazine Sunday Express revealing that some 200 million Christians in 60 countries around the world are at risk of suffering persecution.
Click here to read the rest of the [...]
May 25th, 2007
Associated Press journalist Rachel Zoll has written a story on the sudden glut (and publishing success) of books by angry atheists, accusing religion of being the source and summit of human evil.
“Religion kills”, she quotes the ubiquitous Christopher Hitchens as saying. Gotta love that guy, who delights in taking controversial, allegedly unexpected and independent stances, [...]
April 4th, 2007
Kathleen Parker has made what sounds like good sense to me of the whole chocolate Jesus fracas, and how Catholics should be reacting to it during this Easter season.
February 27th, 2007
This London Times article brought a “Wow” to my lips that no Microsoft OS could ever induce, no matter how many bells and whistles. It alleges that there is evidence that this whole academic fad involving the notion that Pius XII was a closet antisemite and Hitler supporter, who not only did nothing [...]
February 14th, 2007
…and Charles Dickens’ Bleak House.
As I write this, the Catholic diocese of Spokane, (like my own Archdiocese of Portland, OR) is going through bankruptcy proceedings brought on by sex abuse cases. I don’t know what the Portland numbers are, but in Spokane, according to this Catholic News Agency report, fully half of the $48 million [...]
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale
Joan of Arc: A Life (Penguin Lives) by Mary Gordon
None
Mary loomed large in that springtime of art and letters, the Renaissance; she was to have no less an influence on artists in the ‘Second Spring’.
—
Kelly Hatzenbihler on 