Catholicism

Top Anglican author converts to Rome

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

Former priest announces move to Catholic church A bestselling author and Anglican priest has launched an outspoken attack on the Church of England and revealed that he is converting to Catholicism. GP Taylor, whose children's book Shadowmancer became an international bestseller and is being turned into a film, accused the church of sinking "into a liberal pit that was no earthly use and offered...

• Author attacks church - News Scotsman

Pope's Power Grab?

Godzdogz (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

Since the Vatican announced that an Apostolic Constitution would be forthcoming from Pope Benedict XVI that would allow Anglicans to enter corporately into full communion with the Catholic Church, while maintaining some of their legitimate liturgical rites and traditions, there have been many reactions, some positive and others decidedly less so. In particular, a number of commentators in the secular...

Religious affiliation by ethnicity in the United States

The Audacious Epigone (Free subscription) | yesterday

I'm regularly vexed by my inability to seamlessly rehash empirical data in conversation when I'd assumed it would easily stick as I came upon it for the first time. It's hardly a frustration unique to me, and the conventional explanation that it takes ingesting information three times to internalize it seems to be generally accurate in my experience. Sometimes, though, I am surprised by the inaccuracy...

Enabling the Holocaust - Constantine's Sword

Sustainability, Equity, Development (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

(Pope Benedict XVI at Auschwitz) Once a Catholic priest, author James Carroll's faith in authority was broken by the Vietnam War. He left the church and began a rigorous study of the history of the relationship between Christianity and Judaism, distinguishing an extraordinary story that deepens the understanding of the forces that made the seeming incomprehensible Holocaust comprehensible. (Constantine)...

Powerhouse Priests Spar Over What it Means to Be Catholic

Time (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

A pair of prelates face off over pro-choice politicians in an unusually public dispute that threatens to split American Catholics

Year for Priests

A Catholic Life (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

From June 2009 - June 2010, we commemorate the Year of the Priest. In the words of Pope Benedict XVI: "Precisely to encourage encourage priests in this striving for spiritual perfection on which, above all, the effectiveness of their ministry depends, I have decided to establish a special 'Year for Priests' that will begin on June 19 and last until June 19, 2010. In fact, it is the 150th anniversary...

Women of the Democratic Party - it's time to show your fierceness

Blog for Democracy (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Here is the list of Democratic Congresspersons who voted for the Stupak Amendment - HR3962 According to Planned Parenthood: This amendment is an unacceptable addition to the health care reform bill that, if enacted, would result in women losing health...

Who is a Jew? British case raises question

STLtoday.com (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

LONDON — The questions before the judges in Courtroom No. 1 of Britain’s Supreme Court were as ancient and as complex as Judaism itself. Who is a Jew? And who gets to decide? On the surface, the court was considering a straightforward challenge to the admissions policy of a Jewish high school in London. But the case, in which arguments concluded Oct. 30, has potential repercussions for...

• Who Is a Jew? Court Ruling in Britain Raises Question - New York Times

The Origin of Anti-Semitism

Anchor Rising (Free subscription) | yesterday

Perhaps it's peculiar, given my Jewish heritage, or perhaps it's entirely predictable, given my progression from atheism to Catholicism, but I'd never thought to explain anti-Semitism in the way that Meir Soloveichik describes here: As Stanley Hauerwas notes, Berkovits fails...

Counting sheep or praying the Rosary . . .

A Miscellany of Musings (Free subscription) | yesterday

I haven't been sleeping very well recently - too many things on my mind and the PF is away on business. I know I'm not the only one but it was an odd coincidence to discover that a fellow sufferer at the moment was also someone whose blog I've only recently come across thanks to a link from Catholic and Loving It ! Saintos is a Catholic cartoon blogger. Go on over and have a look at Drawn to Catholicism...

Weekend Bonus: a response to John Mark Reynolds

Pyromaniacs (Free subscription) | yesterday

by Frank Turk Welcome readers from First Things: Evangel . This may look like a ploy to draw readers from there over here in order to troll for hits, but since we don't do any advertising here I think that's not a very charitable thing to say. Full-blown, full-contact, full-body contact Catholic apologetics have broken out in the comments of one of my posts (it was inevitable, I am sure), and what...

When the Wall came tumbling down

ProudToBeCanadian Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

Twenty years ago on Nov. 9, a captive people of a divided continent literally with their hands dismantled the Berlin Wall. This wall represented not merely the totalitarian tyranny of Soviet Communism, but the eternal ugliness and evil of that inherent disposition in man to deny the freedom of another to live his life as he wishes. A whole generation has come of age since then with insufficient memory,...

Vatican official seeks more access to Cuban media

Sify (Free subscription) | yesterday

A senior Vatican official said Friday he has asked Cuba's government to allow the Roman Catholic Church more access to mass media, saying Cubans are a religious people and should be given

• Vatican official seeks more access to Cuban media - Miami Herald
• Vatican official seeks more access to Cuban media - kansascity.com
• See the 4 articles on the same subject

The social assistance state

Ten Reasons (Free subscription) | yesterday

In a terrific primer for National Review Online, Fr. Thomas Williams, L.C., explains that from a Catholic perspective, the problems with socialized medicine and ObamaCare aren't limited to abortion, rationing/euthanasia, and the violation of conscience. Here's an excerpt: This uncritical approach certainly doesn’t describe all the bishops, and probably not even the majority. If the bills are...

Quote of the Week: The Worst Person That Has Ever Been Born

Michael May's Adventureblog (Free subscription) | yesterday

October took it's toll worse than I thought. I have a folder FULL of old quotes I never posted. Let's clear that right out... As you all know, it takes me weeks, MONTHS , even years to get to commissions over email, and that makes me the worst person that has ever been born.... BUT!... If you catch me at a convention-Presto!-the commission appears right before your eyes! Just like David Copperfield,...