Angels, Demons and Why Dan Brown Needs the Catholic Church
ROME - On Monday May 4, Rome played host to the world premiere of "Angels and Demons," Ron Howard's new film based on the Dan Brown novel. Days before the launch, promoters were still scurrying about, trying to drum up controversy, to little real effect. A 103-year-old-bishop in Potenza obligingly suggested that Christians boycott the film, and a well-primed anecdote recounted how the Vatican had blocked all filming in churches to thwart the project (fun fact: the Vatican owns fewer than 10 of the 900 churches in Rome and only one featured in the film), but that was about it. Apparently, the ...
How Israel Could Have Been a Better Host to Benedict
ROME -- Abraham would have been disappointed. Ever since the first patriarch hosted the three angels at his table, hospitality has been considered one of the highest virtues in the Middle East. But thus far, Pope Benedict XVI's pilgrimage to the Holy Land this week has been marked by two different versions of welcome. ...
Benedict, Where Did Our Love Go?
Only a year ago, after Pope Benedict XVI's first visit as pope to American soil, what had originally looked like a bad blind date had blossomed into love at first sight. In New York and D.C., where one regularly sees dignitaries at Starbucks and on street corners, crowds took the day off and cheered themselves hoarse for the little German guy in the long white gown. Rating 80 percent approval among Catholics, and 70 percent among others, it looked like a love match. ...
Glendon's Critics Are Wrong on Notre Dame Medal
Harvard Law's Mary Ann Glendon, former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican under President Bush, announced earlier this week that she would decline the University of Notre Dame's prestigious Laetare Medal over the school's decision to honor President Barack Obama, who supports abortion rights, at its commencement ceremony next month. Today PoliticsDaily.com contributor Elizabeth Lev weighs in on the controversy: I read with some perplexity this PoliticsDaily.com blog post on Professor Glendon's decision to refuse the Laetare award, as it seemed to present a very superficial reading of the ...
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