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. […]
The first installment of Dr. James Hitchcock’s two-part series “The Failure of Liberal Catholicism” (found in the May issue of CWR) has generated a lot of discussion, on this website and others. The second installment […]
“Catholics” at the American Catholic Council, a gathering of dissenters in Detroit, are engaging in the usual papal bashing . National Catholic Reporter provides a glimpse of some of the rhetoric on tap at that event. Meanwhile, Anglicans […]
“He glanced across the room into the small oval-framed dresser mirror. The eyes that stared back at him were the same that had returned his gaze every day from that mirror but it seemed to […]
The Brave New World continues apace. According to this story, the Obama administration, via the department of Health and Human Services, has a special program to promote the adoption of children by members of the “LGBT” community. This program […]
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