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The big 3 are online now. pdf files.

Going on now…if you’re watching and would like to comment, please do. I won’t be able to watch any more. I did just catch Bishop Bruskewitz getting up, right off, on the general document – quoting Ratzinger over and over discounting the authority of Bishops’ Conferences. Disagree or agree – you just want to say,…

This is startling – or not. Years ago, a friend of mine commented that there was a hidden "epidemic" of strokes among young women who used birth control pills and (usually) smoked as well. Although the former, in patch form now, seems to be doing the trick: According to Johnson & Johnson’s third quarter SEC…

Some notes from the press conference, but then I’m working on other stuff, and am not going to allow myself to watch the afternoon session… The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter asked why there was the resistance to Archbishop Burke’s suggestion about Courage. Bishop Serratelli said that had been discussed in committee, and there were many…

They are going through amendments there has been a request to consider separately. They have the amendments in front of them, but we don’t know what they are. So it’s hard to follow. Archbishop Burke is speaking about Courage and EnCourage . It seems as if his amendment is calling for explicit recognition of the…

A USCCB moment: They just voted on the Music Directory issue (approved w/88% yes) but before that considered an amendment from Bishop Vigneron of Oakland. He proposed a process similar to the conformity guidelines for catechetical textbooks. His point was "what we sing at the liturgy is a liturgical text." He said the bishops should…

Strongly… The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, has accused the BBC of bias against Christianity and says the broadcaster fears a terrorist backlash if it is critical of Islam. The archbishop, the second most senior figure in the Church of England’s hierarchy, said Christians took "more knocks" than other faiths at the hands of…

The American Papist is providing excellent wrap-ups of the USCCB conference – with links to media coverage, and so on.

The Pope’s message: On the occasion of the coming World Day of Migrants and Refugees, and looking at the Holy Family of Nazareth, icon of all families, I would like to invite you to reflect on the condition of the migrant family. The evangelist Matthew narrates that shortly after the birth of Jesus, Joseph was…

I do hope the USCCB puts up the address of James Cardinal Stafford of the Apostolic Penitentiary, just delivered in Baltimore. It was quite fascinating, and his quiet, humble delivery just added to the interest, to me at least. He came to speak primarily of indulgences, highlighting for the bishops the recent publication of the…
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