CATHOLIC NEWS: Kiesle case is no smoking gun... PLUS 5 MORE

CATHOLIC NEWS: Kiesle case is no smoking gun... PLUS 5 MORE

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Kiesle case is no smoking gun

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 07:44 AM PDT

This is a Murphy redux. Despite how The New York Times and the Associated Press and others are interpreting the Kiesle case, the documentation they base their stories on actually show the local diocese to have fumbled this clerical sex abuse case, not the Vatican. A couple of key points:...

The Myth of Held-back Catholic Women

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 06:41 AM PDT

New Monastery Going Up Through the Efforts of Five Women Politics is opportunistic; in the wake of the last three weeks unending coverage of the decades-old scandals in the Catholic church, Lisa Miller of Newsweek has decided that this is the time to push for the feminist interests.

Newsweek Does It Again

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 01:46 PM PDT

Lisa Miller from Newsweek is at it again. Her favorite advesary, the Catholic Church, sells a lot of books and magazines when you throw it under the bus. So, why stop? She sure got this one wrong again, just as she did when talking about heaven recently. Here is one snip that should get us going...

Pflegerization of Catholicism

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 01:47 PM PDT

The Catholic Church — the heart of it, Jesus Christ and the Eucharist — has left no one. But Catholics are leaving it all the time, in word and deed. And some of them are ordained or consecrated. But it is still there, with men and women all over the country, some of them ordained and consecrated, getting up every day.

Fr. Lombardi: "For love of the truth..."

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 05:06 AM PDT

The editorial read by the pope's spokesman on Vatican Radio on April 9. The most important official pronouncement on pedophilia after Benedict XVI's letter to the Catholics of Ireland.

Four points to make about Gomez and L.A

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 09:11 AM PDT

As difficult as it is to talk about any Catholic subject these days other than the pope and the sexual abuse crisis, I'm going to give it a whirl, because there was another important storyline this week: In effect, the Vatican paved the way on Tuesday for the first Hispanic cardinal in the United States...