A CNS story looks at a small FSSP parish in Rome. A fair treatment – the angle is comparing this  Mass with papal liturgies, which is an interesting point, but sort of like apples and oranges – comparing a Mass with 40 people to one with 40,000. The whole experience and the people in attendance…

Cardinal Mahony on California’s assisted suicide bill: Cardinal Roger Mahony is urging Catholics to fight a proposed bill that would legalize assisted suicide for the terminally ill in California. "Assisted suicide is totally unnecessary — not only is it against God’s law, God’s plan, we simply don’t need something like that," said Cardinal Mahony during…

In Genoa: Vandals have defaced the cathedral of Genoa, Italy, in an apparent retaliation after Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco spoke out forcefully against same-sex unions. The words "Bagnasco shame" were spray-painted across the main entrance to the cathedral of St. Lawrence in Genoa. The words appeared shortly after Archbishop Bagnasco, the president of the Italian bishops’…

I watch House about once a year, and…last night wasn’t one of them! However, the word is that there was a very powerful moment: I gather (and correct me) that the plot involved a situation in which a late-term abortion was being advised by House who referred to the child throughout as a fetus, tadpole,…

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