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…from a source with, er…knowledge. Terry McAuliffe’s application for the Knights of Malta was "withdrawn." The Knights office in DC was flooded with emails and calls – and, I’d expect, many of them from the good Knights and Dames themselves. 

To the Popcak family, who received word today that the process of adopting their new baby from China is in its final stages: Lilianna Fu Zhang Popcak Significance of Her Name: Lily—Lilianna will be coming home around Easter.  The lily is a symbol of purity, virtue and the Virgin Mary.  Also, because it bursts forth…

…is Milingo? Back to school! Mgr Emmanuel Milingo is in Seoul to study the religion of the Unification Church, founded by the Rev Moon Sun-myung. Excommunicated in September of last year for ordaining four Catholic bishops, Milingo showed up at a Unification Church gathering held in a central Seoul hotel on January 30, urging in…

There’s a lot of discussion and (justifiable) fretting out there about why people leave the Cathoilc Church. It’s a discussion we’ve had here, and will continue to have. But I want this thread to be something different, something I don’t think I’ve seen before. If you’re a "revert" – why? What brought you back? I’d…

Stephen Barr responds at First Things: While I agree with the general sentiment of Fr. Edward Oakes’ observations yesterday concerning the invidious or vituperative use of the word heresy, I feel that he is turning into a matter of sentiment what should be a matter of precise definition. If the word heresy is thought of…

Some of you have heard of the Paraguayan bishop who resigned to run for presidential office. In an interesting next step, the Vatican has maintained its suspension of him, but refused his petition for laicization. And since he then remains a bishop, he can’t run for office – because the Paraguayan constitution forbids it. Hat…

One of the things that I’ve not blogged on is the Italain journalist posing as a penitent in the confession and getting varied advice from priests. That link takes you to the Get Religion post on the story. My take? Dishonest and despicable. But the results – not too surprising. Heartening that they spoke the…

There’s a lot going on that I’ve not blogged on, mostly because I’m working on things. If you see the "progress" bar over there, you see that I’ve surpassed by initial estimated word count. That estimate was based on 14 chapters in my original outline, at 3000 words a chapter. Well, chapters have multiplied, and…

This link to yesterday’s WSJ story on the Church and China will be live for a few more days, so check it out. As Beijing and the Vatican escalate their battle for control of the Roman Catholic Church in China, people like Bishop Liu Jingshan are caught painfully in the middle. The head of a…

Using the currently empty see of Kinshasa as a starting point, John Allen looks at growth trends in the global Catholic population: The post has been vacant since the January 6 death of Cardinal Frédéric Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi, who was 76. Etsou became archbishop in 1990, during the final years of the famed dictator Mobutu Sese Seko,…
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