Jennifer Fulwiler has the single best take on the “Once-Called-Father” Corapi kerfuffle that I’ve seen yet. She doesn’t wallow in some of the more bizarre elements of the unraveling of the priest’s public persona (and […]
Liberal bishops talk about the dangers of bishop-bashing even as some of them engage in it themselves, as evident in this National Catholic Reporter story. Seeking to please his audience of dissenting theologians at a Catholic Theological […]
The Benedictine monks of Belmont Abbey College have donated four acres of land on the college’s campus for the country’s first college-based maternity and residential facility for unwed mothers and their babies, reports the Charlotte […]
New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan must be doing something right if he can get New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd this worked up. Dowd is outraged that the Catholic Church still dares to participate in public […]
The Religion News Service reports that next week “the Salesian Pontifical University in Rome will host an academic conference on Eucharistic adoration, where the speakers will include six prominent cardinals, focusing on the rediscovery of the […]
During its spring general assembly in Seattle, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops released its first-ever statement from the entire body of bishops on the subject of assisted suicide. CNS has a full report […]
The fatally misguided notion of forgiveness that led some bishops to recirculate abusers in the Church still has at least one open defender, retired Archbishop of Anchorage Francis Hurley. “Don’t we believe in forgiveness?” he said at the […]
NPR’s Morning Edition had an interesting interview this morning with journalist Mara Hvistendahl, who has written a book about sex-selective abortion and the consequences of gender imbalances already observable in different parts of the world. […]
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