Cambridge MA Saturday 6 10 PM It rsquo s been a few weeks since I rsquo ve blogged mdash the combination of the hectic beginning of semester the exhausted my three blogs on Dominus Iesus and the happy ceding this space for two unique and interesting entries by Deacon Mike Iwanowicz mdas

If Pope Benedict is half as tired as I now feel at the end of the vigil in London s Hyde Park he will sleep well tonight -- after another punishing schedule at the close of his triumphant UK visit The Vigil -- which managed to resist being termed Pope in the Park -- was moving powerful and pr

From the October issue of the Atlantic an exhaustive profile of America rsquo s most powerful Catholic politico Vice President Joe Biden Writer Mark Bowden chronicles Biden rsquo s ascendency to President Obama rsquo s inner circle highlighting his transformation over the last two years from gaf

Pope Benedict XVI s four-day visit to the UK has so far been one long argument -- demonstrated in words deeds and symbolism -- against the secularist attempt to drive out faith from the public square But the argument has been accompanied by a call -- to Catholics to take their place in that square

At a Mass at Westminster Cathedral Pope Benedict has just spoken these words in his homily -- some of the strongest yet expressed on clerical sex abuse ldquo Here too I think of the immense suffering caused by the abuse of children especially within the Church and by her ministers Above all I e

WESTMINSTER I ve just come out from Pope Benedict XVI s address to representatives of civil society in Parliament s Westminster Hall feeling like I ve witnessed a genuine historical moment The Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow told the Pope that what was once thought inconceiv