"History has moved on: but they have not."

"There will undoubtedly still be a few Catholics who will be suspicious of the new provision [for the Anglicans]: and they are largely those within the Catholic Church who over the last 30 years have tended to be suspicious of almost anything that has come from Rome, especially under Pope John Paul, but also under Pope Benedict. The point about them is that history has moved on: but they have not." Link: The Catholic Herald

America on Maureen Dowd

http://www.americamagazine.org/blog/entry.cfm?blog_id=2&id=42045865-3048-741E-1802050355000941

Vatican budget/endowment? A fraction of Harvard's or Notre Dame's

http://saltandlighttv.org/blog/?p=7664

and

http://orientem.blogspot.com/2009/10/would-selling-vatican-solve-world.html

Newly "canon"-ized

That would be me, the planet's newest canon lawyer (until tomorrow when some of my classmates take their turn at the "mini-bar" exam in Rome). I passed the exam last Thursday with flying colors (coloribus volantibus???), and then had the happiness of several blissful days in Rome visiting with friends and seeing the Holy Father at the Angelus. I was so giddy after my exam, meaning that I was at last free to leave Rome, that I all but skipped down via Monserrato with this in my head: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufJ_0rBS1zg&feature=related