Obama’s controversial priest, who tore into Hillary Clinton a few weeks back and ended up suspended as a result, is back. Fr. Michael Pfleger returned to the pulpit at his home parish yesterday, and the Chicago Tribune was there: Comparing his pastoral return to a heavyweight champ’s comeback, Rev. Michael Pfleger blazed back to his…

A few days back, John Allen interviewed Baltimore’s Archbishop, who had some pretty stern words about the controversial Legionaries of Christ. I posted an item on it, and got some interesting responses. Allen has now published a follow-up in this week’s NCR: Since my interview with O’Brien appeared, I’ve had a high volume of responses,…

That was the subject line on an e-mail I received from a deacon friend, who forwarded me this article from a newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin. I hadn’t heard anything about it, but it looks like something we should keep an eye on: A fundraising firm hired by the Madison Catholic Diocese to gauge support for…

Much has been written, and debated, about the bewildering news that 17 teenage girls from Gloucester, Massachusetts evidently made a pact to get pregnant. This is a tragedy. But, as this post over at Beliefnet reminds us, it may also be a barometer: Whether this was, as some have speculated, a desperate attempt to find…

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