Dangerous Fiction

February 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment

There’s an interesting interview with Mark Shea available from Zenit. The topic of the interview is Mark’s book, The Da Vinci Deception, co-authored with Edward (Ted) Sri (published by Ascension Press; when it’s released on 28 February it will be available from Amazon.com). Mark is a great apologist (Sri, an assistant professor at Benedictine College [...]

I listened with some (morbid) fascination to the exchange of words between London Mayor Ken Livingstone and Evening Standard reporter Oliver Finegold. I suppose it’s safe to say that Jews around the world are not going to start bombing British embassies or rioting in the streets, even though the Mayor’s remarks are arguably as offensive [...]

Red (Hat) China

February 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment

The Catholic News Service reports today on the appointment of Hong Kong Bishop Joseph Zen Ze-kiun as cardinal. This is good news in two ways. First it is good that the Chinese Catholic population–now over 12 million strong–has better representation in the Curia (the only other Chinese Cardinal, Paul Shan Kuo-hsi, is 82 years old [...]