Cardinal Law, two other bishops have testified Cardinal Bernard F. Law and at least two former high-ranking bishops of the Boston Archdiocese have testified before a federal grand jury investigating the case of a Boston-area priest who was transferred to a California Veterans Affairs medical facility despite notations in church records of possible sexual misconduct…

The NYTimes looks at abortion-rights GOP pols and their bishops Both Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Pataki have traditionally embraced pluralism, a wise approach in polyglot New York. The former mayor, who has indicated he may run for office again, just reiterated his church-state views on MSNBC, defining what he called the “accepted wisdom” about dealing…

She doesn’t have time to blog, but she has time to mess with her photo albums, starting a whole new one for Summer 2004. A bit of Chicago, a bit of Detroit so far. Priorities, I tell ya. Actually, I did pretty well today, work-wise. Got halfway done the assigned tasks, which means I should…

Two articles on bishops, politicians and Communion: Archbishop Burke Did I impose a canonical sanction on the Catholic politicians from the Diocese of La Crosse, who had departed from the church’s teaching on the inviolability of human life? I did not. I merely declared that public cooperation in a gravely sinful act, which has always…

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