Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez has never been a big fan of Cardinal Roger Mahony, and this morning he isn’t sending him any valentines: Roger the Dodger has already admitted — albeit without much detail — that he left five priests in the ministry despite complaints of molestation. And my newspaper has counted 11…

Well, here’s a new one. According to the New York Times, (in an op-ed piece by Elizabeth Marquardt, a vice president of the Institute for American Values, and only available via TimeSelect) we need to brace ourselves for the coming debate about group-marriage: On April 30, a state Superior Court panel ruled that a child…

It’s happening in the priesthood — and, evidently, in the sisterhood, too: more and more of those entering religious life, feeling the pull of a vocation, are older. A growing number of the vocations are coming, not from kids in their teens and 20s, but middle aged men and women in their 40s and 50s.…

I’ve been meaning to post this for a few days, and now I’m finally getting around to it: a nugget from Deacon Tony on a little “help wanted” notice that the Church is posting to anyone, anywhere. They’re looking for priests to come to Lourdes for the big 150th anniversary blowout next year: Lourdes has…

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