More misreporting by The Times

Complaints to The Times, please: this story is doing the rounds of the Catholic blogs. The Times Vatican correspondent, Richard Owen, reported on the Pope's Stations of the Cross in a bizarre, sensationalist way, suggesting that the sequence of meditations was entirely new (here: you can add your comments at the bottom). In fact, they were composed by Pope John Paul II and have been used several times; they now seem to be alternating with the traditional stations. See Hermeneutic of Continuity for more commentary.

Also in The Times, Matthew Parris goes on record with his unshakeable faith - faith that could not be shaken, even in theory, by scientific evidence, however convincing it might seem - that the late John Paul II's intercession has not been instrumental in a miraculous cure of a nun from Parkinson's Disease. Impressive as it is, this kind of faith does not ensure salvation...