“The reinstatement is an internal Church matter. However, it is scandalous that someone of this stature in the Church denies the Holocaust. Denial of the Holocaust not only insults the survivors, memory of the victims, and the Righteous Among the Nations who risked their lives to rescue Jews, it is a brutal attack on truth.…

Is there a Catholic stance on climate change? A group of concerned Catholics evidently thinks so and is launching a new effort to raise awareness of it: During the Easter season, the Catholic Coalition on Climate Change plans to publicly unveil a “Catholic Climate Covenant,” a new initiative to make U.S. Catholics more aware of…

Hot on the heels of this news in the Diocese of Brooklyn last week, the New York Times has taken a longer view of what’s happening in Catholic schools around the country: It is a familiar drill in nearly all of the nation’s Roman Catholic school systems: a new alarm every few years over falling…

The wires reported yesterday the death of Ricardo Montalban, at 88. Among other things, he was the brother-in-law of legendary Hollywood Catholic Loretta Young. Those of us Of A Certain Age remember the strange and smooth stylings of Ricardo Montalban as he intoned on television, week after week, “Welcome to Fantasy Island!,” while the weird…

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