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That’s how a woman by the name of Heidi Schlumpf refers to MCPF Stephen Colbert in this essay from NCR: I enjoy satire as much, or maybe even more, than the average person. I even guiltily laughed at The Onion’s post-9/11 coverage (“Not knowing what else to do, woman bakes American flag cake”). But like…

We have just heard the climax of the Greatest Story Ever Told. We hear it every Palm Sunday – and we will hear it again on Good Friday. It is a story of monumental suffering, and love, that has been proclaimed from pulpits around the world for centuries. It speaks for itself. There’s nothing I…

“As you go forth in your preparation, you will spend much time preparing homilies. But even more important is the preparation of the homilist. That means, we are called to preach who we are and what we are. We preach what we know…and what we know is that God loves us, and that is the…

It’s interesting to speculate, and John Thavis, over at Catholic News Service, reports that people around the Vatican are being fairly tight-lipped about the controversy. But he does offer these compelling nuggets: Non-Americans at the Vatican tend to see the issue in a different light, I think. For one thing, they seem more comfortable with…
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