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The NYTimes is running a 4-part series on the issue of religious organizations and government regulation. It begins today with an overview: Religious organizations defend the exemptions as a way to recognize the benefits religious groups have provided — operating schools, orphanages, old-age homes and hospitals long before social welfare and education were widely seen…

Rod Dreher on the Amish and forgiveness: What sets hearts apart is how they deal with sins and tragedies. In his suicide note, Mr. Roberts said one reason he did what he did was out of anger at God for the death of his infant daughter in 1997. Wouldn’t any parent wonder why God allowed…

A few days ago, we linked to a CNS story on various Catholic voting guides that are out there. Today at Mirror of Justice, the blog dedicated to Catholic legal theory, Robert Araujo, S.J. takes a look at one of them: The last point made by the CACG pamphlet meriting comment in this posting concerns…

A few weeks ago we discussed The Century in Which Catholic Churches discovered electricity – and proceeded to line various architectural features with glowing bulbs, to various effects. The parish we usually attend here in the Fort has such an arrangement – bulbs that line the arches on the gothic altarpieces, as well as the…
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