The Catholic News Service reports on various Catholic initiatives to bring peace to the Middle East. (more…)

A medieval manuscript of the Book of Psalms was found yesterday in an Irish bog by harvesters of commercial potting soil. (more…)

Noted Bloggernacle contributor Clark Goble has kept the apologist/anti-apologist fire burning with his recent Millennial Star post Discussing the Gospel in a Scholarly Way. The fight between DKL and DP was one attraction of that thread, but to my mind the key to the controversy was revealed when an anonymous commentor described the problem with “apologetics” — and, indeed, with discourse in general — in this discussion. (more…)