The Catholic bishop of Osnabruck, Germany, Bishop Franz-Josef Bode, thinks that more power for women might possibly have prevented some of the abuse in the Catholic Church.
Archive for July 28th, 2010
Camino to Compostela
Jul 28
La Cigüeña de la Torre reports that 2,200 young people from Madrid have set out by foot on the pilgrimage path to the shrine of St. James in Compostela.
August 15 is my birthday. When people ask why I became Catholic I reply “Because Jesus still can’t refuse his mother anything.”
Near the top of my list is Paul Mariani’s new biography, Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life (Viking 2008).
Where’s the text??
Jul 28
You’ll enjoy Jerry Galipeau’s report on what we know about the state of the new missal text. Almost nothing, it turns out.
Here is an interesting article on ecumenism by John Witvliet of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, from the Summer 2010 issue of Liturgical Ministry.
Archbishop Augustine Di Noia, OP, Secretary of the Holy See’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, has some highly interesting comments on young Catholics in today’s culture.
Vatican Dress Code
Jul 28
The officers of the Swiss Guard are now pulling aside tourists who show too much skin.