The Holy See presented Pope Benedict XVI’s latest encyclical, Caritas in veritate today.  The Vatican Information Service has links to the news bulletin and a summary of the encyclical.

Codex Sinaiticus is now completely online as a result of the collaborative efforts of the British Library, the National Library of Russia,  St. Catherine’s Monastery, and the Leibzig University Library.

The future of the Bibliography of the History of Art (International Bibliography of Art?) is in doubt.  The Getty Research Institute announced that they will cease supporting it on January 1st, 2010.  There is hope that another institution will save the day.  Columbia University recently made the commitment to pick up the Avery Index to Architecture Periodicals, another database that Getty is letting go.

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Leon Kass, noted bioethicist, gave the Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities last night.  More information about Kass’ life, the lecture and an interview in Humanities magazine can be found on the National Endowment for the Humanities web site.

Catholics and Politics: Charles Coughlin, John Ryan, and the 1936 Presidential Campaign Website…
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the thirty-second President of the United States, served longer than any other President in United States history. Elected to four consecutive terms, Roosevelt served from 1933 until his death in 1945. Millions of Catholic voters helped bring Roosevelt his landslide victory in 1936. Estimates of the number of Catholics voting for FDR range from 70% – 81%.

None of this Catholic support was taken for granted during the campaign of 1936, however, nor did all Catholics support a second term for Roosevelt. To the contrary, relations between certain prominent Catholics and members of the Roosevelt administration were strained. Father Charles Coughlin, a former FDR supporter who had become an outspoken critic of the President during the 1936 campaign, actively campaigned against him in the months before the election. Father John Ryan, on the other hand, publicly supported Roosevelt during the campaign, delivering a national radio broadcast under the auspices of the Democratic National Committee on his behalf. This website features previously unavailable audio and documents related to the presidential campaign of 1936 and the involvement of each priest in that campaign.

CUA Libraries has now acquired Series B of The Library of Latin Texts.  Series B contains the existing editions of the works of theologians, philosophers and other writers.  Series A contains critical editions, many from the Corpus Christianorum series.

The list of writers:

- Aemilius Asper (pseudo)
- Aemilius Asper (pseudo) (Asporius, Asperius, Asper minor)
- Agroecius
- Alcuinus
- Anonymus Bobiensis
- Aphthonius (Aelius Festus Aphthonius uel Asmonius, id est: Marius Uictorinus [pseudo])
- Appendix ad Catholica Pseudo-Probi (e cod. Vindobonensi 16 olim Bobiensi, saec. VII uel VIII)
- Appendix ad Eutychis Artem (de deponentibus uel communibus uerbis)
- Appendix ad Metrorii [Maximi Uictorini] De finalibus [metrorum]: De caesuris
- Aquila Romanus
- Ars Bernensis
- Ars rhetorica Clodiani de statibus (et alia excerpta e cod. Bernensi 363 saec. IX)
- Arusianus Messius
- Auctor anonymus Bobiensis de litteris
- Auctor anonymus de orthographia
- Audax
- Bacon (Rogerus Bacon)
- Balbus (pseudo)
- Beda Uenerabilis
- Breuis expositio Uergilii Georgicorum (’Burmannianus G’)
- Caesius Bassus
- Caesius Bassus (pseudo)
- Capitula ad Eutychis Artem (sec. cod. Parisinum 7499, saec. XI)
- Carmen de figuris uel schematibus (= AL 485 R)
- Carmen de pedibus (e cod. Vindobonensi 2521 saec. XI)
- Carmen de ponderibus et mensuris (= AL 486 R)
- Charisius (Flauius Sosipater Charisius)
- Charisius (pseudo) (Flauius Sosipater Charisius [pseudo])
- Cledonius
- Commentarii Berolinenses ad res metricas pertinentes (e cod. Berolinensi 66 olim Santeniano, saec. VIII)
- Consentius
- De adtributis personae et negotiis (ex Ciceronis De inuentione libro primo)
- De dubiis nominibus
- De idiomatibus casuum (e cod. Parisino 7530, saec. VIII ex.)
- Differentiae sermonum (Differentiae Ciceronis)
- Diomedes
- Dionysius Periegeta secundum translationem et retractationem quas fecit Priscianus
- Donatianus
- Donatus (Aelius Donatus)
- Dosithei Ars grammatica
- Emporius
- Eutyches
- Excerpta ex commentariis in Donatum
- Excerpta ex Macrobii opere De uerborum Graeci Latinique differentiis uel societatibus [Excerpta a Iohanne Scoto Eriugena collecta ut uidetur]
- Excerpta ex Macrobii opere De uerborum Graeci Latinique differentiis uel societatibus [Excerpta e commentario Remigii Autissiodorensis ut uidetur]
- Excerpta ex Uirgilii Maronis grammatici Epitomis
- Excerpta ex Uirgilio Marone grammatico (e cod. Bernensi 123, saec. X) [= excerpta ex arte quae 'Donatus ortigraphus' nuncupatur]
- Excerpta rhetorica e codice Parisino 7530 (saec. VIII ex.)
- Excerpta Uaticana de positura, de chria, de poemate, de uersu, de accentibus
- Explanationum in artem Donati liber I (cuius auctor ‘Sergius’ uel ‘Seruius’ dicitur)
- Explanationum in artem Donati liber II (cuius auctor ‘Sergius’ uel ‘Seruius’ dicitur)
- Fortunatianus (Atilius Fortunatianus)
- Fortunatianus (Consult(i)us Fortunatianus [diu perperam Caius Chirius Fortunatianus nominatus])
- Fragmenta Bobiensia ad grammaticam pertinentia
- Fragmenta de praepositionibus et uerbis e cod. Parisino 7520 (saec. VIII) [uerisimiliter excerpta retractata e Terentii Scauri opere]
- Fragmenta Parisina ad grammaticam pertinentia
- Fragmenta Sangallensia ad res metricas pertinentia
- Fragmentum de caesuris (e cod. Wolfenbuttelano olim Weissenburgensi 86 saec. IX)
- Grammatici incerti glossae ad Uergilii Aeneidos XII pertinentes (ex Barthii Aduersariorum commentariorum libro XXXIII, 13) [1624 / 1648]
- Hermogenes secundum translationem et retractationem quas fecit Priscianus
- Iohannes Duns Scotus
- Iulius Rufinianus
- Iulius Rufinianus (pseudo)
- Iulius Seuerus
- Maecianus (Lucius Uolusius Maecianus)
- Magni glossarum libri glossae quibus Uergilii nomen praefixum est (litt. A – E, sec. cod. Bernensem 16)
- Mallius Theodorus (Flauius Mallius Theodorus)
- Marius Uictorinus
- Martyrius (Adamantii filius)
- Metrorius [Maximus Uictorinus]
- Notae XXI quae uersibus apponi consuerunt (’Anecdotum Parisinum’: laterculus fortasse e Suetonio excerptus, e cod. Parisino 7530 [saec. VIII ex.] editus)
- Palaemon (pseudo) (Quintus Remmius Palaemon [pseudo])
- Papiri(an)us (Quintus Papirianus)
- Petri (scil. Pisani) grammatici excerpta
- Philargyrius (Iunius Philargyrius) (dubium an Filagrius)
- Phocas (Focas)
- Phocas (Focas) (pseudo)
- Pompeius (Maurus)
- Primae explanationes Sergii de prioribus Donati grammatici urbis Romae
- Priscianus
- Priscianus (pseudo)
- Probus (Marcus Ualerius Probus)
- Probus (pseudo) (Marcus Ualerius Probus [pseudo] – Scripta Probiana)
- Quaestiones grammaticae selectae ex codice Bernensi 83 excerptae
- Remigius Autissiodorensis
- Rufinus Antiochensis grammaticus
- Rutilius Namatianus (Claudius Rutilius Namatianus )
- Sacerdos (Marius Plotius Sacerdos)
- Scaurus (pseudo) (Quintus Terentius Scaurus [pseudo])
- Scaurus (Quintus Terentius Scaurus)
- Schemata dianoeas
- Scholia codicis rescripti Ueronensis in Uergilii Bucolica, Georgica, Aeneidem (fragmenta)
- Scriptoris incerti glossarium Uergilianum (ex Barthii Aduersariorum commentariorum libro XXXVII, 5)
- Sedulius Scotus
- Sergius (dubium an nomen auctoris corruptum sit)
- Sergius (pseudo)
- Seruius grammaticus (dubium) (Maurus Seruius Honoratus [dubium])
- Seruius grammaticus (Maurus Seruius Honoratus)
- Seruius grammaticus (Maurus Seruius Honoratus) ['Seruius auctus']
- Sulpicius Uictor (Sulpitius Uictor)
- Terentianus Maurus
- Terentianus Maurus (fragmentum a Seruio seruatum)
- Testamentum porcelli
- Tractatus de adtributis personae et negotio (siue Commentarius in Ciceronis De inuentione libri I capita 24-28)
- Uelius Longus
- Uergilius Aspri (Grammatica Uergiliana)
- Uita Donati grammatici

Pope Benedict XVI has canonised the following Blessed: Arcangelo Tadini (1846-1912), Bernardo Tolomei (1272-1348), Gertrude Comensoli (1847-1903), Caterina Volpicelli (1839-1894), and Nuno de Santa Maria Alvares Pereira (1360-1431)…. Vatican News.

The World Digital Library has been in the making for four years.  A collaborative effort of the member countries of UNESCO, the library will become a repository of cultural material.  Items are to include manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings.

The American Religious Identification Survey 2008 came out this week.  Highlights include a decline in the number of Catholics in the Northeast and a corresponding increase in the Southwest and an increase in the number of secular individuals from 14.2 % in 2001 to 15% in 2008.  The survey was conducted by the Program on Public Values at Trinity College in Connecticut.  The chief investigators are  Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar.  The full report is here.