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With a little tweaking, this NYTimes article could run in The Onion, although what the author of the article fails to realize is that the Church is universal, and mass intentions go all over the place as a matter of course…if I donate to a missionary order and request Mass intentions, that means a priest…

In Friday’s Word from Rome, John Allen reported that President Bush had asked the Pope for help – asking him to push the US bishops to speak out more on certain issues, particularly same-sex marriage. The NYTimes picks up the story today. But some with experience in Roman Catholic politics said they were hardly shocked.…

In the Dem response to the Saturday presidential radio address, Kerry advocated more stem cell research, failing to distinguish between adult and embryonic cells and calling for us all to be brave in the face of our ethical concerns. Jeff Miller covers it at CKW

A piece by Fr. Michael Heintz, who is the rector of St. Matthew Cathedral in South Bend. Augustine’s “City of God” (a hefty tome that nonetheless repays the reader’s efforts) offered a much less sanguine view of the possibilities of a “Christian Empire.” One of Augustine’s clear purposes in writing was to convince believers that…
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