The Paragraph Farmer has a post on how short attentions spans and reporters failing to do their job and the repercussions is has on everybody.
Tomorrow being the feast of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, www.companionofjesus.com is launching a 10 installment set of videos focusing on Jesuit/Ignatian spirituality, Jesuit history and contemporary Jesuits. The first installment in on their site now.
Ex-blogger Emily Stimpson has an excellent article reprinted from Our Sunday Visitor called Despite pop works’ claims, Buddhist, Catholic beliefs collide, don’t blend.
Hat tip to the reader who sent it in.
Fr. Rob Johansen imagines a conversation between Cardinal Mahony and the Pope.
Make sure you read Fr. Rob’s article in This Rock magazine linked to at the end of his post , "Why Doesn’t the Pope Do Something About Bad Bishops?". I remember reading it and found it quite informative and that it changed my perspective on this issue.
Dale Price takes his considerable fisking skills to a column by James Carroll. I think I would rather be processed through a wood chipper than fisked by Dale.
Kelly Clark on James Carrol latest diatribe.
Jesus loves James Carroll. He loves the people who publish Carroll’s nonsense.
But He’s not about, I don’t think, to stand for much nonsense. Oh, He’ll let us read it. But He’s given us enough grace—and wisdom, to boot—to see through it.
Creative Minority Report on the John Wayne of Popes.
The Cincinnati Enquirer runs Rich Leonardi short essay on the motu:
While Christians strain the gnats of Harry Potter, here comes a camel.