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- Pope accepts resignation of another Irish bishop
- 153 Fish and Related Matters
- Woman, 92, enters the convent
- The Morality of Tattoos and Body Piercing
- Gathering no moss: a Catholic life after the Rolling Stones
- Bishops - read this. Deacons - read this. Hey priests…
- You stitched up the Pope and this is how you did it, law professor tells New York Times
- Kennedy Case. The Bishop Flunks the Professor
- Armed robbers attack Vatican embassy in Angola
- Bishop Brandt Blocks Expansion Efforts of Nuns who Supported Health Bill
- "By force if necessary": Ambitious Chinese city seeks to spay, geld 10,000 humans in next 20 days
- Jewish Advice: Be Proud You Are Catholic
- John Milton, "On His Blindness" (A Few Words for Wednesday)
- Zombie Alert!
- The Silence of the Monks
- St. Anselm and the Interior Life
- An Open Letter to Hans Küng
- Humor: The Pope plays Scrabble
- Lessons from a Coal Mine
- Priest accused of breaking seal of confession
- Blessed Are Those Who Mourn
- A More Awful Thing. A Lament on the Culture of Death
- Photo: Pope nods off during Mass, world instantly alert
- Arizona's newest law is retrogressive, mean and useless
- Father Owen Kearns offers public apology as publisher of Maciel's newspaper
- Why the Bad Guys are getting scared: "There are so many pro-lifers, and they are so young"
- Money, scandal and Rome
| Pope accepts resignation of another Irish bishop Posted: 21 Apr 2010 08:20 AM PDT Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the resignation of Bishop James Moriarty of Kildare and Leighlin, Ireland-- one of three bishops who offered to resign after the publication of a report... |
| Posted: 21 Apr 2010 09:54 AM PDT When Pope John Paul II died on April 2, 2005, there were any number of fascinating coincidences that surrounded his death. They were the sort of things that make you go "hmm" and (if one is a wobbly agnostic) begin to suspect that maybe You Know Who has His hand in things after all. For instance, John Paul managed to go to hi. |
| Posted: 20 Apr 2010 11:48 AM PDT A Long Island woman fulfilled her dream of becoming a nun recently. Nothing too exceptional about that, except the fact that she is 92 years old! Greek-born Chrystalla Petropoulou, of Long Island, NY has fulfilled a lifelong dream. At the age of 92, the Mattituck resident has become a nun in the Greek Orthodox Church… Petropoulou... |
| The Morality of Tattoos and Body Piercing Posted: 21 Apr 2010 07:26 AM PDT Does this really glorify God? by Father Peter Joseph The Latin Mass Many upright people are repelled by modern fads and fashions, such as tattooing, multiple earrings and other body piercing, but feel unequipped to give a clear judgment on the morality of such practices... |
| Gathering no moss: a Catholic life after the Rolling Stones Posted: 21 Apr 2010 09:30 AM PDT The name Mandy Smith may not ring many bells these days -- but her teenage fling (and subsequent marriage) to Rolling Stone Bill Wyman made headlines decades ago. Now she's set her life on a decidedly different course: Many people who encounter Mandy now know nothing of her headline-grabbing past. |
| Bishops - read this. Deacons - read this. Hey priests… Posted: 20 Apr 2010 09:09 PM PDT I'm in. I don't know what it will be yet. But I'm in. Take a look at this entry at The Deacon's Bench. It was a proposal by a Deacon Charles Rohrbacher. He is suggesting that while bishops say they are sorry right and left about the clerical sexual abuse of children, and their own role in that abuse... |
| You stitched up the Pope and this is how you did it, law professor tells New York Times Posted: 21 Apr 2010 07:34 AM PDT Hat-tip to the Just B16 blog for this letter sent to The New York Times by Prof John Coverdale, professor of law at Seton Hall University School of Law, New Jersey. It wasn't accepted for publication, you'll be astonished to learn. Here it is: Like many other people, I have felt in recent weeks that some... |
| Kennedy Case. The Bishop Flunks the Professor Posted: 20 Apr 2010 09:00 PM PDT The third installment in a dispute that divides the Church and the political field, not only in the United States. The archbishop of Denver, Chaput, rejects the criticisms of Professor Diotallevi, and reiterates that Kennedy had a "morally destructive" effect on two generations of Catholic politicians. |
| Armed robbers attack Vatican embassy in Angola Posted: 21 Apr 2010 02:58 AM PDT Three armed men attacked the apostolic nunciature in the Angolan capital of Luanda on April 19. "Thanks to our faith, we were able to keep calm and we managed to convince the bandits that... |
| Bishop Brandt Blocks Expansion Efforts of Nuns who Supported Health Bill Posted: 20 Apr 2010 10:00 PM PDT The Sisters of St. Joseph in Baden, Pennsylvania opposed the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops by supporting the Health Care Reform Bill. Now Bishop Lawrence E. Brandt of Greensburg has withdrawn his diocese's support for their community by prohibiting the use of any diocesan media or parishes in their recruitment efforts. |
| "By force if necessary": Ambitious Chinese city seeks to spay, geld 10,000 humans in next 20 days Posted: 21 Apr 2010 08:22 AM PDT Doctors in southern China are working around the clock to fulfil a government goal to sterilise — by force if necessary — almost 10,000 men and women who have violated birth control policies. Family planning authorities are so determined to stop couples from producing more children than the regulations allow that they are detaining the relatives of those who resist. |
| Jewish Advice: Be Proud You Are Catholic Posted: 21 Apr 2010 05:00 AM PDT By Danielle Bean | Sam Miller is a prominent Jewish businessman. He is not Catholic. And yet he offers some sage advice to Catholics in a recent column. Be proud, he tells us. Even in the face of injustice in the media, scandals in the Church... |
| John Milton, "On His Blindness" (A Few Words for Wednesday) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 03:29 AM PDT At the Boston Catholic Men's Conference on Saturday, 1,000 men seated in the Cathedral of the Holy Cross were challenged to "go all in" in the great poker game with Jesus Christ. This challenge applies to you and me, whether we have a huge stack of chips in front of us or just a pair of white ones, like the widow with her mite. |
| Posted: 19 Apr 2010 10:03 PM PDT I avoid zombies at all costs. There are a number of reasons for this but the main reason is that I have no desire to become an all-consuming walking dead person. This means that I want to be a person who is fully alive and totally in control of my desires. I understand that this places me at odds with zombies and if any of you who are reading this are zombies... |
| Posted: 19 Apr 2010 10:00 PM PDT A tiny group of Benedictine monks is resurrecting a ruined abbey in the small Umbrian town of Norcia, about 3 hours from Rome. They may also be providing a model for resurrecting a Catholic Church in crisis. "Soli Deo Honor et Gloria" The only sound in the monastery refectory is the high metallic sound of forks clinking against plates. " Clink…. |
| St. Anselm and the Interior Life Posted: 21 Apr 2010 07:19 AM PDT A prayer of St. Anselm: " Up now, slight man! flee, for a little while, your occupations; hide yourself, for a time, from your disturbing thoughts. Cast aside, now, your burdensome cares, and put away your toilsome business. Yield room for some little time to God; and rest for a little time in him. |
| Posted: 21 Apr 2010 07:59 AM PDT Dr. Küng: A decade and a half ago, a former colleague of yours among the younger progressive theologians at Vatican II told me of a friendly warning he had given you at the beginning of the Council's second session. As this distinguished biblical scholar and proponent of Christian-Jewish reconciliation remembered those heady days... |
| Humor: The Pope plays Scrabble Posted: 21 Apr 2010 05:00 AM PDT The Onion has a good one: Of course, no one besides Catholics ever seems to understand what infallibility really means when it is applied to the pope. |
| Posted: 20 Apr 2010 10:00 PM PDT Last Friday, West Virginia observed a "Day of Honor and Mourning" in remembrance of the 29 men killed at an explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine. In his proclamation, Governor Joe Manchin asked miners and mine operators to "commit to one day focused completely on making their workplace as safe as possible in honor of the [killed] miners." For our part... |
| Priest accused of breaking seal of confession Posted: 21 Apr 2010 05:55 AM PDT I can't remember the last time I read about an incident like this, or saw it reported in the media. But here it is, one of the most serious charges a priest can face, reported in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: A Waukesha County Catholic priest has been placed on administrative leave while the Archdiocese of Milwaukee investigates an allegation that he violated the sea. |
| Posted: 20 Apr 2010 10:03 PM PDT The second beatitude says, "Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted" (Matthew 5:4). I remember it like yesterday. The insistent kitchen phone was ringing on the other side of the wall as I woke. I had gone to bed exhausted with sorrow and fear the night before, having returned from the hospital where my Dad lay... |
| A More Awful Thing. A Lament on the Culture of Death Posted: 20 Apr 2010 11:33 PM PDT There is a text in Luke's Gospel that I meant to cover back in Holy Week but things slipped by. It is a rather extraordinary thing that Jesus said on his way to the cross. He said it to women who had gathered to lament him: Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep instead for... |
| Photo: Pope nods off during Mass, world instantly alert Posted: 20 Apr 2010 10:00 AM PDT This photo/story is getting a significant amount of press, often with some sort of shaded (or explicit) quip about the pope being "asleep at the switch" or something similarly silly: I don't know about you, but get me under thirty pounds of heavy vestments, cart me around on an international visit all day long, ask me to deliver speech after speech... |
| Arizona's newest law is retrogressive, mean and useless Posted: 20 Apr 2010 03:50 PM PDT The Arizona legislature just passed the country's most retrogressive, mean-spirited, and useless anti-immigrant law [SB 1070, awaiting the expected signature of Gov. Jan Brewer]. The tragedy of the law is its totally flawed reasoning: that immigrants come to our country to rob, plunder, and consume public resources. That is. |
| Father Owen Kearns offers public apology as publisher of Maciel's newspaper Posted: 20 Apr 2010 03:45 PM PDT Nothing in my experience of our founder prepared me to believe his victims — nothing, that is, until I learned that he had fathered a daughter. The conclusive evidence that he had done things incompatible with religious and priestly life made me rethink everything. |
| Why the Bad Guys are getting scared: "There are so many pro-lifers, and they are so young" Posted: 20 Apr 2010 03:33 PM PDT A survey of 700 young Americans showed there was a stark "intensity gap" on abortion. More than half (51 percent) of young voters (under 30) who opposed abortion rights considered it a "very important" voting issue, compared with just 26 percent of abortion-rights supporters; a similar but smaller gap existed among older voters, too. Worse still for NARAL... |
| Posted: 20 Apr 2010 03:28 PM PDT It was virtually inevitable that the media firestorm over Benedict XVI's handling of sexually abusive clerics—even if the insinuations against the Pope were unsubstantiated and unfair—would spill backwards toward the late John Paul II. It was also inevitable that the point of attack would be John Paul's endorsement of the work of Father Marcial Maciel, fo. |
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