I blogged on this change to the USCCA last month. Now the Jewish reaction in the Washington Post:

That passage puzzles Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League. "Why take a very simple sentence and replace it with a very complicated paragraph?" he asked. "When did the Catholic Church decide that our covenant was finished?"

The article begins with a great line:

In catechisms, as in prisons, there are no insignificant sentences.

That's a keeper!

From UPI:

A Massachusetts woman who nearly drowned in a swimming pool at the age of 3 was touched by God and should be deemed a saint, a group says.

The Little Audrey Santo Foundation has asked Vatican officials to consider Audrey Santo for sainthood, alleging she was saved from drowning in 1987 by a divine touch, The Boston Globe reported Sunday.

The group's request was made under the auspices of Bishop Robert J. McManus of the Roman Catholic Diocese in Worcester, Mass. The church official said he granted the foundation a "canonical blessing" that opened the door for such Vatican requests.

"I gave them what you call 'canonical recognition,'" McManus said.

Prior to Santo's death in 2007, the woman reportedly was connected to occurrences of weeping statues and blood-stained communion wafers. Even with the unsubstantiated miracles credited to Santo, McManus said the road to sainthood will not be an easy one.

"It could take years and years and years," McManus said. "In some cases it's taken centuries for some people to be named saints."

The Catholic official told the Globe Santo would have to credited with a minimum of two authenticated miracles after her death before she could be deemed a saint by the church.

The Group has a website

Cardinal Innocenti died on Saturday at the age of 93. Since I have a cardinal countdown in my classroom, I've made a short PP presentation to share with my students about him tomorrow. I've published it in Google Documents so that others may use it. This is my first time doing this, but I believe you can also edit it to your liking.

You can access the file here.

With the death of Cardinal Innocenti, the College of Cardinals has 193 members, 116 of whom are under the age of 80 and thus eligible to vote in a papal conclave.

Here's the presentation embedded in the post: