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As the bishops gather in Baltimore this week, an important topic of discussion will be the new mass translation. Ann Rodgers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette takes a look: Bishop Donald Trautman of Erie has led the charge against what he sees as a “slavish” rendering of Latin into convoluted, ungrammatical English. “American Catholics have every…

Two big announcements from the Vatican today: In an unprecedented double-shot of Saturday appointments on these shores — and on the eve of the US bishops’ Baltimore plenary, no less — Pope Benedict has named: * Bishop Jerome Listecki of LaCrosse as archbishop of Milwaukee. The Chicago native, 60, succeeds Archbishop Timothy Dolan, who was…

“Health care legislation, with all its political, technical and economic aspects, is about human beings and hence has serious moral dimensions. Our focus is the concrete realities of families with children and their access to doctors, the poor and the elderly, those with limited means and those with few or even no means, such as…

In a rare public rebuke, the Bishop of Providence, Rhode Island has called a prominent member of his flock, Rep. Patrick Kennedy, to “conversion and repentence.” Bishop Thomas Tobin is publishing a letter to the congressman in the diocesan newspaper this week. It reads in part: Your rejection of the Church’s teaching on abortion falls…
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