When I was 9 years old I spied an advertisement in a magazine for a plastic statue of St Jude I can rsquo t imagine which magazine this could have been since my parents weren rsquo t in the habit of leaving Catholic publications lying around the house but apparently the photo of the statue was

The good sisters of America may have a whole new quality of life matter to ponder after a perusal of some photos unearthed by the troublemakers at the National Catholic Reporter of Cardinal Franc Rod eacute Prefect of the Congregation for the Religious at a March ordination of six new deacons for

I have what I believe in all humility is a brilliant idea a Ripley rsquo s Believe It or Not dedicated entirely to right-wing craziness The first two exhibits both come from the same source Andrew Schlafly son on Phyllis the woman who spearheaded the defeat of the ERA and laid the groundwork

It is crunch time on the health care reform bill The Senate leadership in consultation with the White House are deciding the final parameters of the legislation Catholic observers are keeping their fingers crossed that the final legislative language will permit us to support it Actually some C

Two interesting clarifications on the ordinariates proposal from a functionary in the CDF In a ZENIT interview Msgr William Stetson an Opus Dei canonist who has the snappy title of secretary to the Ecclesiastical Delegate of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for the Pastoral Provisio

How s that for timing On the day that the Vatican begins talks with the ultra-traditionalist Society of St Pius X which split from Rome in 1988 a German court has fined one of the SSPX s bishops Richard Williamson for denying the Holocaust Bishop Williamson must pay 12 000 euros for asserting