Slow week on the motu proprio front

Fqther John Zuhlsdorf notes an unhelpful Marco Politi article that discusses the motu proprio in La Reppublica today.  The only other thing I've seen in the last couple of days is that Cardinal Ricard had an audience of the Holy Father yesterday, I think, or perhaps...

Krzysztof Zanussi's diagnosis

The Polish director comments on the old continent: "If Europe were a person, I would take her to a psychologist.  Not to a psychiatrist, but to a psychologist."

A letter from ICEL

The ICEL bureaucrats required Father Finigan to take the proposed ordo missae translation off his site: what astonishes me is this evidence of how their priorities are ordered.  There are questions that the bishops ought to be able to discuss with the expectation of...

Mr Bush's fascism "by erosion"

I can't wait for Miss Naomi Wolf's book. 

Looming tragedies

Hugh Hewitt with Lawrence Wright yesterday; it is scary to know that I have a better grasp of who is who in the war against terror than people who are actually responsible for its conduct.

I hear the sound of Democrats protesting

Mr Giuliani has raised a storm, doubtless.

Elected thugs

Iain Murray at NRO's Corner comments on George Monbiot's support for the nonsense that I noted here the other day. 

Elected thugs

Iain Murray at NRO's Corner comments on George Monbiot's support for the nonsense that I noted here the other day. 

Fr Bux on St Augustine and the Church's catholicity

The Fides press agency published a dossier of St Augustine-related texts (in Italian only, alas) to accompany the Roman Pontiff's visit to Pavia this past weekend, including this essay by Father Nicola Bux on St Augustine and the catholicity of the Church which is quite good...

Fr Bux on St Augustine and the Church's catholicity

The Fides press agency published a dossier of St Augustine-related texts (in Italian only, alas) to accompany the Roman Pontiff's visit to Pavia this past weekend, including this essay by Father Nicola Bux on St Augustine and the catholicity of the Church which is quite good...

Fr Bux on St Augustine and the Church's catholicity

Mr Giuliani, bulwark against annihilation

Ryan Sager at the New York Sun on the 26% of white evangelical Christians who reportedly support Mr Giuliani:"When voters think you're the only thing that stands between them and annihilation, well, you're in a pretty sweet spot."

Spelling matters

This, noted at Patterico, is yet another sign that not all is well with the Republic. 

Syrian parliamentary vote: a model for Lebanon and Palestine

I'm sure Mr Assad delights in the results of the now-concluded parliamentary elections, held "in total freedom and transparency": if someone actually did call the polling a "farce", how misguided and probably hallucinatory must he not be?