Here is the link to the Catholic News Service story, with quotations from the Pope's letter. I will post the English text when I see it, or when someone notifies me....

Andrew Sullivan links to a recent complaint of mine about social decline over the past 40 years, and remarks: Rod is always worth a read - even when you disagree with him. But his anger at the 1960s seems untempered......

Fascinating observation by Patrick Deneen, on an emerging minority voice on the marginal Right that's taking up the critical stance toward the American narrative espoused half a century ago by the New Left. In short, Deneen points out that there's......

Yes, some good is already emerging out of the Holocaust fiasco of the past few days. Reports are circulating on the internet that the schismatic Society of St.Pius X has expelled a priest who recently made comments minimizing the Holocaust. If Bishop Williamson does not undergo the change of heart n...

Here is the Zenit link and an excerpt below: “Yesterday," said Cardinal Egan, "the Vatican condemned in the clearest terms a statement made by an illicitly consecrated bishop by the name of Richard Williamson in which the evil of the Shoah was questioned or at least minimized. As Archbishop of New...

Here is the link to the N.Y. Times story. Here is an excerpt from that same link source (emphasis added): A statement issued on Wednesday by the Vatican Secretariat of State said that Bishop Williamson “must absolutely, unequivocally and publicly distance himself from his positions on the Shoah,â€...

Prior to his election, U.S. President Barack Obama was interviewed by Pastor Rick Warren, author of The Purpose-Driven Life. I wonder how many Catholics in Singapore got to watch that interview. One of the issues discussed was about President Obama’s pro-choice stance on abortion. In case you ...

Here is an excerpt from a religion column in the Wall Street Journal by Rev. Edward T. Oakes, S.J., whose name is well-known to readers of First Things: To claim that the pope has any sympathy with these bishops' utterly odious views would clearly be defamatory, as can be seen by remarks he made dur...

You can find it at the blog of well-known vaticanisti (that is, Vatican specialist) Sandro Magister at this link. He gives analysis, provides the text of the Pope's condemnation of Holocaust denial (along with condemnation by the Catholic bishops of Switzerland), and even provides video of the infam...

In a recent post condemning the outrageous anti-Semitic holocaust denial of schismatic "traditionalist" Bishop Richard Williamson (whose strange views have also been strongly condemned by the Pope, the Vatican, and a prominent French cardinal), I expressed my serious concern that such looney views m...