There has been some distress in leftie circles over the news that former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich will be received into the Catholic Church this nbsp weekend at St Joseph s Church Washington Archbishop Donald Wuerl will preside at the ceremony I say Welcome Newt It is as I never

With all the swirling controversy about the University of Notre Dame and the interview with and apology from Archbishop Burke it has been difficult to focus on anything else But going from the ridiculous to well not really the sublime Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said something very impo

Archbishop Raymond Burke Prefect nbsp of the Apostolic Signatura has issued a statement regarding the interview he gave to Randall Terry about which I blogged yesterday The text of Archbishop Burke s statement is posted at Rocco s site Whispers in the Loggia As you will see the Archbishop d

Later today Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will announce new regulations for the financial services sector The regulations are important in themselves but also because they represent the third nail in the coffin of Reaganomics Whatever else you may think about President Barack Obama and the

At a press conference this morning at the Nation Press Club Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry released a video of an interview he had earlier this month with Archbishop Raymond Burke Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura The transcript is available here The interview took place while Terry and

Bishop John D rsquo Arcy of Fort Wayne-South Bend announced yesterday that he will not be attending graduation exercises at the University of Notre Dame this year His statement was not one with which I could entirely agree but its measured tone was a welcome change from the histrionics that have b

The progressive catholic group Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good have an interesting take on how the politics of the abortion issue is changing You can find it here

I guess I must repeat the question What is it about President Obama that drives otherwise sane people crazy Our friends at National Review Online have run a symposium on the subject of Notre Dame rsquo s decision to award the President an honorary degree and to invite him to give this year rsquo

The University of Notre Dame made twin announcements that President Barack Obama would be giving the commencement speech and Ambassador MaryAnn Glendon would be receiving the university rsquo s Laetare Medal this past weekend The first news about Obama came on Friday and blogger extraordinaire Roc

President Obama is headed to South Bend to deliver the Commencement Address later this spring and already the howls have begun A website that is the brainchild of the Cardinal Newman Society has been launched www notredamescandal com Of course the fringe on the right hates Notre Dame as much as