Closing churches in Boston, St. Louis and elsewhere…salvaging the building’s art for churches elsewhere: Saunders said Our Lady of Hope spent $200,000 on stained-glass windows that were appraised at $2 million. The hand-carved marble altar from the Philadelphia Archdiocese cost $500, but he estimated that a new one like it would have been a thousand…

Getting a canonization cause underway: A priest from Schuylkill County who spent 15 years in gulags for trying to spread the word of God in the atheist Soviet Union has cleared the first step toward recognized sainthood. The Allentown Catholic Diocese recently shipped three wooden crates to the Vatican in Rome full of what they…

A NYTimes Magazine piece on Wrongful Birth lawsuits, and the whole issue of genetic testing and its consequences One gets quesy reading articles like this – quesy from the lurching and evasion, violent motion which Dramamine can’t cure. An unborn child is "potential life" although it is growing, it is surely already alive, is it…

Catholic Dems reprimanded: Top U.S. Roman Catholic leaders told Democratic lawmakers yesterday that there is no wiggle room in church teaching on abortion and that they are duty-bound to work against "the destruction of unborn human life." The statement by three top leaders of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is a response to 55…

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