The Pope’s excellent address on Newman, in the vigil before the beatification. And a round up of excellent reads on both the pope’s triumphant visit to the UK, and Newman’s beatification: America Magazine’s Austen Ivereigh on one of the finest paragraphs of Benedict’s many addresses: He then quoted Newman’s mediation that “God has called me [...]

The pope has more vigor than I. His very full day has included a multi-cultural, multi-religious meeting with 4,000 schoolchildren, whom he exhorted to sainthood by making Christ the center of their lives, then a meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury, at Lambeth Palace, where he said, among other things: The context in which dialogue [...]