This just in: Pope Benedict XVI named Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, 70, to be the new nuncio to the United States. In his most recent position, the Italian archbishop had served for two years as secretary general of the commission governing Vatican City. He succeeds the late Archbishop Pietro Sambi in Washington. Just minutes after his assignment was announced Oct. 19, Archbishop Vigano told Catholic News Service he hoped to get to the United States in time for the U.S. bishops’... Read more
Herman Cain argues as much, in a column he wrote last Christmas that’s getting wider circulation this week: Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain wrote last December in a RedState column titled “The Perfect Conservative” that Jesus was killed by a “liberal court.” The column claims Jesus as a conservative. “He helped the poor without one government program. He healed the sick without a government health care system. He feed the hungry without food stamps,” wrote Cain. “For three years He... Read more
With the full implementation of the new missal now about a month away — can you believe it? — writer Jeffrey Tucker is putting it into context, and raising some concerns, particularly when it comes to music: The “elephant in the living room” of non-liturgical texts at Mass comes through music at Mass. The problem is not the Gloria, Sanctus, or Agnus, since those are prescribed texts and carefully regulated as such (though there is no active regulation over the... Read more
Men applying to study for Holy Orders are familiar with the psychological exams you have to take. Here are the impressions of one man, after taking the test for the diaconate: One interesting feature of the exam is that the examiner (a clinical psychologist) had to review the self-narrative with me, and for a fixed list of questions required me to answer them again orally. This was not for all the questions, and he explained afterwards that this list had... Read more
The celebrated host of “The Catholic Guy” radio show has just published a book called “Sinner.” But now former centerfold star Jenny McCarthy has stolen the title (is that a sin, too?) for a book of her own. And it has a distinctly Catholic angle that will raise eyebrows (and, I think, blood pressures), according to Entertainment Weekly: Former Playboy Playmate Jenny McCarthy has been quite the prolific author these days. Hyperion announced this morning that her next book will be... Read more
I featured this guy some months back, and here he is again, brilliant as ever. Ladies and gentlemen: Jim Meskimen doing the alphabet (with some celebrity help). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao64ONUG5Uw#t=14 Read more
I featured this guy some months back, and here he is again, brilliant as ever. Ladies and gentlemen: Jim Meskimen doing the alphabet (with some celebrity help). Read more
What happens when a country like China has widespread abortion and a “one-child” policy? Things like this: It begins last Thursday when a two-year-old girl totters into a narrow lane in a wholesale market in the thriving industrial city of Foshan in Guangdong Province and is hit by a small, white van. The driver pauses, and then pulls away, crushing the child for a second time under his rear wheels. It is not the accident itself, but what happens next... Read more
…they’ll find you every time. Saw this on a friend’s FB page. Read more
From Fr. Frank Pavone’s Twitter feed this weekend: Read more
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