From Father George W. Rutler’s bulletin column (which you can receive in your inbox weekly): Elderly people often think that some of their recollections are unimportant in the grand scheme of things. With the Titanic anniversary still vivid, there are eyewitness accounts of three priests giving general absolution: Juozas Montvila of Lithuania, Josef Benedikt Peruschitz of [...]

By the way, I was hanging out with one of the coolest women in Washington yesterday: Deidre Byrne, Army colonel, surgeon, and religious sister. (At that breakfast that did not quite make the news.) She has written: My father was a busy thoracic surgeon but still made it a priority to attend Mass every day [...]

It’s this media trailblazer’s 89th birthday today.

Ann Carey puts the Leadership Conference of Women Religious news in some context.

That is what a friend of mine, a recent convert not known for her authoritarian tendencies e-mailed me last night, after reading the news of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s call for the reform of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. It’s tremendously lazy but ideologically convenient reporting that claims it’s a [...]