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Benedict today: Religious freedom is not only the individual right of each person to profess and display one’s faith, but it is also the collective right of families, groups and the Church itself, and engages civil power to “create conditions favourable to the fostering of religious life, so that citizens are truly able to exercise…

There ought to be a law. Or at least some kind of self-regulation. Catholic publications should accept no political advertising from candidates, and perhaps, I’m tempted to say, not even issue-related advertising. In Michigan during the last election, there was an issue, extensively covered by the American Papist, regarding Jennifer Granholm ads in 3 "authorized"…

The pastor at the parish we usually attend (that of "Lights! Lights!") could have his photograph next to the entry on "Low Key" in the dictionary, if there was one. Really. Even though he strikes us as being the Robert Moses of his part of town, when he’s offering Mass, he’s all business (the business…

(From the take-home booklet based on Luke 10:25-37) "A man asked Jesus, ‘How can I be a good neighbor?’" Er….no he didn’t. Which is all the more irritating since the real point of the parable is far more radical than the watered-down and misrepresentative version suggests. Trying to fulfill the Schori prophesy, are we? One…
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