The Commonplace Book of Zadok the Roman

"Dear Pope Francis, we are 26 Italian priests who are writing to you to break down the wall of silence and indifference that we are fa...

The latest Church news in Ireland is a continuation of the ongoing controversy regarding the involvement of Cardinal Sean Brady - then part-...

... to congratulate her on her marriage and to encourage her to start a Jap-Cath-Navy blog.

BBC Radio 4's In Our Time is one of my favourite radio programmes. If you're interested in the history of ideas, it's always w...

Not for the Faint-Hearted I was browsing for images of St Blaise today, and stumbled across this surprsing image of the saint. Now, it'...

In this morning's Bolletino we have the Holy Father's address to the Bishops of England and Wales . (The Scots have their own episc...

Cnytr has twisted my arm, and made me remind you all that she's blogging again . Pester her and persuade her to post more about her tr...

I stumbled across the following article and something struck me. The author says: How come the deciding issues of whether one is a member ...

I'm afraid it's been much too long since I've blogged regularly. I sometimes feel like posting a rant in the key of St Bernard o...

This news report is worth reading . It deals with the pressure on Bishop Martin Drennan to resign. The key sentence - to my mind - is: The b...

I'm not sure what can fittingly be said about the Dublin Report. I guess that I'd suggest reading the report itself rather than re...

There's been quite an amount of coverage of the case of an Irish priest who announced at Mass this weekend that he's leaving ministr...

The Holy Father has issued a new motu proprio dealing with the whole SSPX situation. It's called Ecclesiae Unitatem (The Unity of the C...

There have been whispers about this for months, but the Bolletino finally announces : - un miracolo, attribuito all'intercessione del Ve...

Via Zenit (itself a Legionary operation) the text of a letter from Cardinal Bertone: The Holy Father is aware of the noble ideals that insp...

The ever-interesting Cnytr has started blogging again. Lots of St Jospehy goodness posted today... check it out!

I should have blogged about this some time ago. Amy Welborn's blog has moved to http://blog.beliefnet.com/viamedia/ Don't forget t...

From the Vatican's Bolletino I read that the Holy Father has lifted the excommunications imposed on Bishops Bernard Fellay, Bernard Tis...

Rocco is reporting the death of Cardinal Dulles : Word from New York brings the sad news that Avery Dulles SJ -- the celebrated convert, tea...

I've decided to repeat this meme . Check out Jane's , also.