…after bursting through the door from school: "Can I go to the synagogue and play Ultimate Frisbee?" Er…sure.  At least until sundown. I guess… Update: Turns out it’s the school’s Ultimate Frisbee Club, and it meets on the big grassy plain in front of the synagogue. She’s psyched. She scored at least one touchdown. She…

A ZENIT article on a Pennyslvania group: In this interview with ZENIT, Kevin Bagatta, president & chief executive officer of Real Alternatives, (www.realalternatives.org/aboutus), discusses the Pennsylvania Alternative to Abortion Services Program and how it has helped abortion rates in the state to fall steadily. Q: How did you get involved in Real Alternatives? Bagatta: My…

John Allen contributes: To the growing list of indications that something is imminent with regard to the long-awaited document from Pope Benedict XVI authorizing wider use of the pre-Vatican II Mass, I can add one item this week. An April 3 letter from Cardinal Walter Kasper, who among other things heads the Vatican’s Pontifical Commission…

The International Theological Commission report on Limbo has been released. John Thavis at CNS reports. After several years of study, the Vatican’s International Theological Commission said there are good reasons to hope that babies who die without being baptized go to heaven. In a document published April 20, the commission said the traditional concept of…

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