It's Friday the 13th today--beware! (Or, carry on as normal.) Turns out we'll have one more Friday the 13th in 2012, this July. Learn a little more about the superstitions surrounding this day here.
The U.S. bishops' ad hoc committee on religious liberty issued their promised statement on religious liberty today: "Our First, Most Cherished Liberty." In it, they somewhat breathlessly suggest, "that the fourteen days from June 21—the vigil of the Feasts [sic, it's a memorial, and memorials don't have vigils] of St.
To kill the time on a 15-hour flight to New Zealand, one woman took Flemish-style self-portraits in the lavatory. They are amazingly creative and hilarious.
Also brilliantly creative: Caine’s Arcade. If you haven’t seen this video, yet, just be prepared for the tears of hope, joy, and for all that is good in the world. This kid is a superstar.
The big news today is of course that Rick Santorum has officially suspended his presidential campaign, all but giving the Republican nomination to Mitt Romney.
Happy Easter season! We hope you had a joyful day of celebration! The pope was in for a big Easter treat--literally. He received this 7 foot tall, 550-pound chocolate bunny, which he donated to a juvenile detention center.
As we begin the Easter Triduum, let's get the bad news out of the way first: the sexual abuse trial in Philadelphia is still ongoing, and Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City-St. Joseph was back in court as well, where a judge refused to dismiss misdemeanor charges against the bishop.
Bryan Cones writes that what’s news about this story, isn’t that a new parish council member approved by Cardinal Christoph Schonborn is gay, but that he is only 26-years-old: “I can think of plenty of pastors who would give their eye-teeth for a 26-year-old council member (gay or straight).”
Good news for dinosaur lovers in New York--the Department of Education has abandoned plans to eliminate "dinosaur" and other words that could be potentially offensive or troubling to certain students from standardized tests. Many words that could be upsetting to students of a particular religion were on the list, like Christmas, Halloween, and even "birthdays."
Proving that U.S. Catholic is hip, cool, and with it (or at least on top of popular subjects du jour):
It's getting harder and harder for a Democrat to speak at a Catholic college (or to be married to one): Anna Maria has withdrawn its invitation to Victoria Kennedy, the widow for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, to give the Worcester-area, Mass., college's commencement. Worcester Bishop Robert McManus apparently thought Kennedy was just too liberal, suggesting that some of her personal opinions might be out of line with church teaching.
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