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A Catholic journalist in the Washington Post is asking the question that may be on a few Catholic minds these days: is voting for Barack Obama a sin? Like most Maryland Democrats, I voted for Sen. Barack Obama in the recent Potomac Primary. By doing so, according to the leaders of my church, I put…

Generations after the Holocaust left its mark on the world, there are still new chapters being written about that dark moment in history. The Chicago Tribune today has news of a French priest helping to tell the story: At first glance, Rev. Patrick Desbois seems an unlikely Holocaust investigator. Yet this modest Roman Catholic priest…

There’s been a lot of hand-wringing and teeth-gnashing, on all sides, over the Pope’s revision of a prayer in the Tridentine Rite which mentions the Jews. Now, a leading rabbi has offered his thoughts in the Jewish Daily Forward: In this day and age, Jews should not be overreacting to Pope Benedict XVI’s revision of…

A commentator over at Bloomberg is suggesting that the real problem facing the poor of the Philippines is that they’re having too many babies. And he blames the Church. So, of course, he has a latex solution: “The most unprepossessing candidate for the Holy Grail of prosperity is seven inches of latex: a condom,” Easterly,…
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