With Mary Ann Glendon having declined to receive the Laetare Medal from Notre Dame —  because of the way she was being used as a way of balancing the university’s controversial and Bishop-defying decision to honor President Obama — one has to wonder exactly who Notre Dame will pick as their second choice. They will [...]

Archbishop Dolan is quickly stepping up to the challenges of being the newest Archbishop of New York. Father Zuhlsdorf over at What Does the Prayer Really Say? has a look through an interview Dolan gave to the New York Post, and likes it.

The Kansas Catholic Conference (the official voice of the Catholic Church in Kansas on matters of public policy) has responded to Governor Sebelius’ veto of a bill that would significantly aid the enforcement of Kansas’ existing late-term abortion law. Kansas, despite having one of the strictest late-term abortion laws in the country, is internationally known [...]

The possibility that the British Cardinal O’Connor might take up a place in the House of Lords (to explain this to US readers: it’s a sort of a Senatorial office, but with much less direct power) is continuing to cause controversy, since the Catholic Church has fairly strongly moved away from the idea that clergy [...]