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Andrew Greeley has weighed in on the bishops’ document on “Faithful Citizenship” and, as always, he has some provocative points: If we are to believe the media, the Catholic bishops warned American Catholics that if they voted for a candidate who supported abortion, their eternal salvation might be in jeopardy. I don’t think that’s what…

We all know the pope has his hands full these days, what with Advent about to begin and the new encyclical about to be signed. But now something else has dropped into his “in” box: Iran. This comes to us from Time magazine: The diplomatic chess game around Iran’s nuclear program includes an unlikely bishop.…

In a tradition that seems to be spreading, thousands of Vietnamese gathered this weekend in California to celebrate and commemorate the martyrs who were canonized nearly 20 years ago. The Los Angeles Times takes note: Several thousand Vietnamese American Roman Catholics turned an Irvine arena into a makeshift church Sunday for a service commemorating the…

It seems barely a week goes by without another story or two about women being “ordained” as Catholic priests. Now a woman, and a nun at that, has published a book on women and ordination. And Sister Sara Butler isn’t necessarily saying what others in the sisterhood of feminism would like to hear. She was…
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