Over at Catholic Vote, Thomas Peters picks up a Washington Post report on Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley’s decision to release letters exchanged between himself and Baltimore’s Archbishop Edwin O’Brien on the subject of same-sex marriage. […]
Brian Cahill, the former executive director of San Francisco Catholic Charities, writes in the National Catholic Reporter that Cardinal William Levada did not oppose gay adoption until “Roman careerism” changed his mind: “In early 2003, I received […]
On June 4, Pope Benedict began a two-day apostolic journey to Croatia, a land bathed in Christians’ blood since the early days of the Church. St. Venantius, the bishop of Salona, in what was then […]
As 200 Roman Catholic bishops arrived in Seattle—one of the most secularized and un-churched areas of the country—with a conference agenda covering controversial issues, some drama was to be expected. The United States Catholic Conference […]
On July 5, Father John Corapi’s order, the Corpus Christi, Texas-based Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity, released a statement saying that the well-known priest had violated his priestly vows of poverty, […]
This is getting to be a very old story: When the secular media cover events in which women claim ordination as Catholic priests, reporters abandon all ordinary journalistic standards. A National Public Radio (NPR) story […]
In 1984, Mario Cuomo, then governor of New York, famously declared in a speech before fawning Catholic intellectuals at Notre Dame that he was personally opposed to abortion but publicly supportive of a right to […]
In May 2011 the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, the Roman dicastery responsible for questions connected with the traditional Latin Mass, issued the instruction Universae Ecclesiae. That instruction concerns the implementation of Summorum Pontificum, Pope Benedict […]
One loud and raucous cheer for those Catholic academics who so loudly challenged Speaker of the House John Boehner, this year’s commencement speaker at Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. “Dear Mr. Speaker,” they […]
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