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The sister at the abortion clinic: “Her actions are in violation of her profession…”
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jmcgee
There have been some developments in a story I posted last month, about a Dominican sister working as a volunteer escort at a Chicago abortion clinic. From American Papist: Public Statement of the Sinsinawa Dominican Congregation “Several months ago the leadership of the Sinsinawa Dominicans was informed that Sr. Donna Quinn, OP, acted as a…
Court rules Italy must remove crucifixes from classrooms
By
jmcgee
One of Europe’s most Catholic countries will show a little less of that, at least in its public schoolrooms: Europe’s court of human rights ruled Tuesday the display of crucifixes in Italian public schools violates religious and education freedoms under the continent’s rights convention. The ruling, which could force a Europe-wide review of the use…
FBI probes murder of nun
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jmcgee
A still-unfolding story out of the American southwest: A nun has been found dead in her residence at a church in a small community on the Navajo Indian reservation near the Arizona-New Mexico border, the FBI said Monday. Sister Marguerite Bartz, 64, failed to show up to Sunday Mass and a colleague who went to…
The last Catholic high school in Detroit
By
jmcgee
Incredibly, this once heavily Catholic city only has one Catholic high school left. And TIME magazine finds out why: Lunch period at an inner-city all-boys school is an event associated with the sounds of chaos, not classical music. And yet there are definitely strains of Beethoven coming from the piano in the cafeteria at the…
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