Pope shakes hands with woman priest

• Hijacking or setting him free, Benedict loves Newman, by John L. Allen, Jr.


• Benedict finds unlikely ally in British PM, by John L. Allen, Jr.


• Polarized opinion on pope fills London streets, by John L. Allen, Jr.


• Trying to solve the church's communications problem, by John L. Allen, Jr.


• Pope meets with sex abuse victims, by John L. Allen, Jr.


• Analysis: Benedict's in a box in talking about the crisis, by John L. Allen, Jr.


• Pope apologizes for 'unspeakable crimes' of sex abuse, by John L. Allen, Jr.


• Joint statement on meeting between Pope and Archbishop of Canterbury


• Benedict in Britain: We get it, we've got it, let's share it, by John L. Allen, Jr.


• Pope calls on religions to defend environment, human life, by John L. Allen, Jr.


• Full text of pope's comments on the crisis, by John L. Allen, Jr.


• Of all people, Cardinal Kasper?, by John L. Allen, Jr.


• Benedict battles the 'dictatorship of relativism', by John L. Allen, Jr.


• Pope on crisis: 'We weren't fast enough', by John L. Allen, Jr.


• Benedict to step into buzz saw of dissent during upcoming UK visit, by John L. Allen, Jr.


• Newman still commands our attention, an NCR editorial


• He even prayed 'with a pen in his hand', a book review by Peter L’Estrange


• Hijacking Newman, by Dennis Coday


• Newman: the 'sense' and 'consent' of the faithful, a viewpoint by Robert McClory

All this week in his Distinctly Catholic blog, Michael Sean Winters is interviewing a variety of Newman scholars:

• Fr. Joseph Komonchak, taught ecclesiology at Catholic University, wrote his dissertation on Newman


• Christopher Pramuk, Assistant professor of Theology at Xavier University in Cincinnati


• Ian Ker, Professor at Oxford University and author of a Newman biography


• The Very Reverend Richard Duffield, the Provost of the Birmingham Oratory


• Archbishop Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster and Primate of England

Related items in Distinctly Catholic:

• When Benedict Meets With Victims


• Letters between Newman and the Rev. Charles Kingsley


• James Roberts, assistant editor of the British Catholic weekly The Tablet


• Christopher Lamb, news editor of the British Catholic weekly The Tablet


• Elena Curti, the deputy editor of the British Catholic weekly The Tablet


• Catherine Pepinster, editor of the British Catholic weekly The Tablet