From the Irish Central site: Fr Vincent Twomey told Irish television that Brady has lost the confidence of his flock after failing to report Fr Brendan Smyth’s abuse to the authorities after a 1975 investigation. The […]
From “The Caucus” blog on the New York Times site: Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said on Sunday that he was “comfortable” with same-sex marriages, a position that appeared to go beyond the “evolving” views that […]
Yesterday’s edition of MinnPost.com has an interview with Sister Bridget McDonald, a nearly 80-year-old sister who (along with two biological sisters) is a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. The interview, about the […]
Our Sunday Visitor (OSV) marks its hundredth anniversary this weekend: On Saturday, Our Sunday Visitor will celebrate the centennial of the first issue of its now-nationwide Catholic newspaper, “Our Sunday Visitor Newsweekly,” with a free […]
From a recently posted Homiletic & Pastoral Review article, “Positive Psychology and Pastoral Practice”, by Dr. Christopher Kaczor: Are psychology and religion fundamentally incompatible? Certainly, some forms of psychology are inconsistent with Christianity, as Paul […]
The NPR site has a recent piece, “Nuns And The Vatican: A Clash Decades In Making”, that is informative in some ways, curious in others. One informative part is anecdotal and opens the piece: When […]
Not that it’s a slow news day, but I couldn’t let this bizarre bit of news pass by, taken from a recent article in The New York Times about chickens and their loving owners in […]
From Vatican Information Service: Vatican City, 2 May 2012 (VIS) – The prayer of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, was the theme of the Holy Father’s catechesis during his general audience this morning. Addressing […]
Maureen Dowd, as most readers know, writes a regular op-ed column for the New York Times. Her dislike for certain people and institutions is quite obvious, mostly because she fixates on them in nearly every […]
Here is William McGurn, from his column in yesterday’s WSJ: Paul Ryan shocked the gentle souls at Georgetown University when he traveled up to their campus last Thursday and said: “We believe that Social Security […]
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