Dave Gibson at his blog Pontifications has a good roundup of the nbsp controversy over the lifting of the ban of excommunication of four bishops from the Society of St Pius X which erupted on the anniversary of the 50th anniversary of the announcement by John XXIII of the Second Vatican Counc

This video has been many Catholic blogs but it sums up the events of the past week with drama and grace though alas not with suffficient effect

We need to think and write honestly, as if everything is at stake, no matter what the cost.

Wow nbsp Here is the statement from Bishop Bernard Fellay superior general of the Society of St Pius X responding to the lifting of the ban of excommunication nbsp It reads in part I reminded nbsp him Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos that we were suffering much from the present situation of the

A reader has chastised us here at America for not offering a post about the annual March for Life It is a fair question I can only answer for myself but I have very mixed feelings about the March What I like about it is also what I don rsquo t like about It has failed utterly to make a differenc

A surprising and important nbsp story out of Rome today Pope Benedict XVI has lifted the ban of nbsp excommunications of four Lefebvrite bishops members of the controversial nbsp Society of St Pius X nbsp The news was relayed to us by Robert Mickens the London Tablet correspondent who has