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Rock and a hard place: Pope says laity can’t fill priest vacuum
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David Gibson
Benedict XVI today announced a “Year for Priests”– a fine idea, though one that apparently also comes with a tough message for lay people dealing with a shortage of priests, and the Eucharist. First, the announcement. According to the Vatican press release: “Benedict XVI highlighted the “indispensable struggle for moral perfection which must dwell in every…
“Cheney Asserts Obama Has Raised Security Risks”
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David Gibson
That’s the headline on the Times story regarding Cheney’s remarks on CNN on Sunday. Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday that President Obama had made the country less safe, asserting that the new administration’s changes to detention and interrogation programs for terrorism suspects would hamper intelligence gathering. Mr. Cheney said the moves suggested that terrorism…
SSPX leader (heart) Pope Benedict
By
David Gibson
I may not have loved the pope’s letter explaining his views and action regarding the SSPX controversy (as many have noted here) but the SSPX gave it two thumbs-up. Via Zenit.org, here is the full text of the statement from the superior-general of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X, Bishop Bernard Fellay, in response to pope’s March…
Stem cell decision: “People need a fairy tale.”
By
David Gibson
That is one quote that Peter Steinfels cites in his excellent column today, “In Stem Cell Debate, Moral Suasion Comes Up Short,” about Obama’s stem cell decision. (My critique here). A taste of Peter’s focus: The more challenging objection — again, not to the president’s specific stance on embryonic stem cell research, but to the general form…
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