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With the political season heating up, and the U.S. bishops planning to meet next week, some American Catholics are clearing their throats and asking for “civility”: A bipartisan group of American Catholics has issued a call for “civility in political debate,” arguing strongly that lay people should not press Church leaders to denounce politicians whose…

This news escaped my attention earlier this week, but it’s quite a surprise, coming from one of EWTN’s most visible personalties. According to the letter read on the air the other day: Dear Family: Regretfully, I have a message that does not come without significant pain to both you and me. I have to tell…

You can’t blame some folks for wondering. The fabled setting for the book and movie “The Exorcist” has sometimes seemed possessed by spirits that aren’t altogether Catholic. And there’s been even more controversy at the home of the Hoyas lately, causing critics to ask if the nation’s oldest Jesuit university is losing its way. Today,…

To the surprise of virtually no one, President Bush has selected a Harvard professor as his new ambassador to the Vatican: President Bush plans to nominate Harvard University law professor Mary Ann Glendon to be his new U.S. ambassador to the Vatican. Glendon, 69, is an anti-abortion scholar and an opponent of gay marriage who…
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