Dale Soden is a history professor at Whitworth University in Spokane, Wash. He contributed a chapter on mainline Protestants, Catholics and Jews in the Pacific Northwest to Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Northwest: The None Zone.

Read an October 1989 letter to the bishops of the Catholic Church on the subject of Christian meditation written by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI. In it, Ratzinger addresses yoga.

Catholic Bishop Michael Saltarelli of the Diocese of Wilmington, Del., has a column featuring 10 ways to mark the Pauline year.

See an additional extensive resource cache on St. Paul from Catholic News Service.

See an extensive resource cache on St. Paul from Catholic News Service.

Read a June 28, 2007, Catholic News Service story about the Pauline Year–the 2000th anniversary of Paul’s birth.

Read a July 2, 2008, essay by the Vatican-watcher Sandro Magister about the Pauline Year–the 2000th anniversary of Paul’s birth.

Read the Philadelphia grand jury findings and accompanying report after the case of a Philadelphia clergyman’s sexual misconduct . The archdiocese hired a former sex crimes prosecutor to review the personnel files of all the priests named in the grand jury’s report, and in March 2011 the archdiocese placed 21 priests on administrative leave pending a final report.

Read National Catholic Reporter coverage from May 23, 2011, of the case of the Rev. Shawn Ratigan, the priest of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph who was arrested on child pornography charges.