The paradoxes of Ash Wednesday

Vinita Hampton Wright is one of my favorite spiritual writers nbsp And full disclosure she was also the copyeditor--and a fantastic one--for my book My Life with the Saints nbsp A few weeks ago I received a copy of her new book Days of Deepening Friendship For the Woman Who Wants Authen

This week L Osservatore Romano highlighted a study nbsp just in time for Lent nbsp on the sinful tendencies of the sexes nbsp The report according to the BBC nbsp was based on a study of confessions carried out by nbsp Roberto Busa S J a 95-year-old Jesuit scholar nbsp The Pope s pe

Bishop Fellay the superior of the Society of St Pius nbsp X said that nbsp it would be difficult to reach doctrinal consensus with the pope reports nbsp AP nbsp nbsp nbsp One gets the impression that Fellay feels that nbsp church will soon be brought to greater doctrinal clarity and Benedict

Adolfo Nicolas the superior general of the Society of Jesus recently visited the Jesuits California Province on the occasion of its 100th anniversary nbsp He spoke to a wide variety of groups--9 days 11 cities and 30 different sites--and had an extensive press conference for representative

The pope s choice for auxiliary bishop of Linz Austria has withdrawn his name from consideration after a firestorm erupted after nbsp the priest s nbsp comments about Hurricane Katrina which he said was God s punishment on the people of New Orleans for their sins and homosexuality which

At least he rsquo s not saying that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene that Opus Dei murders people and that the Va tican has misled believers about Christ for 2 000 years nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Here rsquo s a trailer and behind-the-scenes look at the new Ron How

One of the great human rights advocates of the past few decades Alison Des Forges who worked tirelessly on behalf of the people of Rwanda and was certainly the world s leading expert on the genocide there in 1994 has died in the plane crash outside of Buffalo yesterday evening nbsp If you re

A reader nbsp wrote to let us know that the Society of St Pius X has quietly removed from their website the article The Mystery of the Jews which we referenced in a blogpost a few days ago and which asserted that Judaism was inimical to Christian nations responsible for the death of Jesus a

The Vatican s Secretariat of State nbsp has issued an official nbsp statement on the Society of St Pius X this morning here nbsp nbsp nbsp It has nbsp a clear message The acceptance of Vatican II and the authority of the last five popes is an indispensable condition for full communion for t