I'm hearing reliable reports that during Cardinal Pell's recent visit to England he said on the record that he thinks the Legion can't possibly be expected to sort out its own affairs and that some sort of Vatican involvement is needed, probably in the form of an apostolic visitation. Stay tuned.......

Forwarded to me by a member of Regnum Christi. This was sent out to select members this morning: After the image cut-off the phone number and details are given, along with the text "We look forward to you joining us! ~ Sincerely yours in Christ, Fr. Anthony Bannon, LC." Can you guess what the questi...

I was busy while you were away. The notables: Humor: Papist Picture of the Day - 3/08/09 BotC: Mocking of Christ with the Virgin and Saint Dominic Life: An Obama Anti-Life Hat Trick Outrageous: What are the Knights of Malta Thinking? World: "Nine-Year-Old's Abortion Outrages Brazil's Catholic Church...

Actually, 20th place exactly. Among Catholic blogs, The Anchoress and What Does the Prayer Really Say are ahead. Both are excellent blogs. The (unscientific) algorithm Faith Blogging used looks at Compete.com, Alexa ranking, Technorati ranking and Google Reader subscribers. AmP has 1300+ GoogleReade...

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When I found out Doug Kmiec had shot out an article for Time magazine in the wake of Pelosi's meeting with Pope Benedict, I geared myself up for yet another point-by-point critique of his flawed arguments. This time, however, I don't even need to take the trouble, because the entire premise of Kmiec...

It seems my defense of the Legion and Regnum Christi has struck quite a chord. I want to thank Thomas Peters for letting me respond to some of the questions and criticism that has been raised by my piece at TheCatholicThing.org - Austin Ruse: There has been quite a lot of comment about my assumption...

Someone has created a website to offer "Spiritual Bouquets" for LC priests and RC consecrated members. I'm told it began as a Facebook group and crossed-over onto a full website. The individual who registered the website lives in Connecticut, near where the Legionaries of Christ are based in the Uni...

A search of the popular social networking website Facebook reveals several popular groups created (some time ago) to support Marcial Maciel. Out of curiosity, I visited two of the largest ones to see how young Catholics are reacting to the news. The first one is named "Sainthood Quickly for Fr. Marc...

It's taken some time for me to get up to speed with the Maciel situation in Mexico. There is sadly very little cross-over between English and Spanish language journalism. The results of my search, however, do not disappoint. To begin with, the President of the Mexican Bishop's Conference (CEM) has c...