I saw this on the wires.
My emphases and comments.
Israel’s chief rabbinate severs Vatican ties      Jan 28 04:04 PM US/EasternBy IAN DEITCHAssociated Press Writer
JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel’s chief rabbinate severed ties with the Vatican on Wednesday to protest a papal … Continue reading →

If this gets wearisome, stop reading.
Elie Wiesel attacks pope over Holocaust bishop [What a dreadful title]Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:33am EST
By Philip Pullella
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Benedict has given credence to "the most vulgar aspect of anti-Semitism" by rehabilitating … Continue reading →

A reader sent me this text from the Holy Father’s Wednesday Audience today:

 
Before greeting the Italian pilgrims, I still have three announcements.
The first: I have learned with great joy the election of Metropolitan Kirill as new Patriarch of Moscow and … Continue reading →

From a priest reader:
Something I was thinking about tonight with regard to how we should PRAY for the SSPX:I think we need to pray for all the priests of the Society, for the softening of their hearts, because in order … Continue reading →

The WSJ makes my point.
As I wrote before:
The Social Security system will probably collapse because, as the population ages, not enough people pay into it to support those who will draw from it. 
How many abortions have there … Continue reading →

I read that Pres. Obama has worked to remove from the economic stimulus package the funding for contraception that Catholic Speaker of the House Pelosi (D-CA) was so quick to defend.
Neither Republicans nor Obama have indicated where they may be … Continue reading →

From the SSPX – the NCR translation from the Italian
Statement of His Excellency Bernard Fellay, Superior of the Fraternity of St. Pius X
We have become aware of an interview released by Bishop Richard Williamson, a member of our Fraternity of … Continue reading →

On this blog we are seeing certain labels tossed around like wind-swirled liter in the corner of a carpark.
We need clear civil discussion about what is meant in the secular context and the ecclesial context by
neo-con
I suppose we will … Continue reading →

Prof. Doug Kmiec, who recently published in Commonweal a rambling 3000+ word apologia pro se cvm jeremiad against right-wing vemon spewing bloggers, is running for office… the appointed office of Ambassador to the Holy See.  
You might recall that … Continue reading →

In another entry I posted some material taken from a media brochure issued by the SSPX with their claims about why the excommunications of the SSPX bishops in 1998 were never validly incurred/imposed.
Here is the relevant section:
According to the 1983 … Continue reading →

UPDATED: 1751 GMT
I found this in Newsweek:
My emphases and comments.
Rome’s Reconciliation
Did the Pope heal, or deepen, the Lefebvrist schism?  By George Weigel | Newsweek Web ExclusiveJan 26, 2009
[He starts with a question that I have tried to get through to … Continue reading →

Have you see the media brochure released by the SSPX about the lifting of the excommunications?
Here are some lines, but you can see it yourself.

Some facts about the 1988 excommunications
In this new atmosphere, we have the firm hope to … Continue reading →