Cambridge MA Blogging is fine but face-to-face classroom conversation is better ndash for many reasons but including the ability to point our attention back to the issue at hand at any given point So it was the occasion for a great sigh ndash Sigh mdash that my last post on my interrelig

America magazine was told that the text of the book of interviews with Pope Benedict XVI Light of the World was embargoed until Tuesday but AP is now reporting that L Osservatore Romano has run excerpts of what was bound to be the most talked-about remark in his lengthy series of interviews with

Some video to supplement Austen Ivereigh s reporting below on the 24 new cardinals including two Americans Cardinal Donald Wuerl archbishop of Washington D C and Cardinal Raymond Burke prefect of the Apostolic Signatura

The cardinals who could well be voting for the next pope now number 121 -- 40 per cent of them appointed by Benedict XVI -- following the consistory this morning in Rome a solemn and colourful occasion in which the new members of the College promise to defend the Church even at the cost of martyrdo

From CNS The Vatican is preparing a document for all bishops conferences offering guidelines for a coordinated and effective program of child protection and for dealing with allegations of clerical sexual abuse said Cardinal William J Levada prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of th

While New Yorkers can be gratified to see the U S C C B presidency make a turn toward the northeast mdash and we at America can only be delighted that a friend of the House and contributor has been selected to head the conference best wishes and congrats Archbishop Tim Dolan mdash I can rsquo t