The world heard two remarkable addresses Tuesday night: John McCain’s gracious concession speech and Barack Obama’s soaring victory speech. But I was struck by this: when McCain mentioned his opponent, the crowd booed. That didn’t happen when Obama mentioned McCain.

“Whatever is opposed to life itself, such as any type of murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia or willful self-destruction, whatever violates the integrity of the human person, such as mutilation, torments inflicted on body or mind, attempts to coerce the will itself; whatever insults human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery, prostitution,…

Word from Atlanta this week that their diaconate program is being re-tooled — and the Georgia Bulletin explains why and how: The Archdiocese of Atlanta has taken a proactive, leadership role in implementing the U.S. bishops’ National Directory for the Formation, Ministry and Life of Permanent Deacons for the diaconate program here. After completing an…

Several days ago I posted the news about serious canonical troubles facing one of the leading early proponents of Medjugorje. Now, blogger Jimmy Akin has added his two cents, with a very detailed posting that contains links to several important documents from the local bishops about the controversial site. Anyone curious about this phenomenon should…

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