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This just breaking from Palm Beach…fuzzy and confusing details, but two priests have been charged with stealing 8.6 million from a parish over 40 years’ time. Two former priests at St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church in Delray Beach have been accused of misappropriating $8.6 million from the church during the past 40 years. Delray Beach…

…with Cardinal Pell YOUNG Catholics are more confused about religion than other Christian groups their age. Cardinal George Pell will warn the National Catholic Education Commission’s annual conference today that young members of the church seem to regard life as a "smorgasbord of options from which they choose items that best suit their passing fancies".…

Cardinal O’Malley’s blog continues – he posts a homily he gave on the feat of St. Ignatius at BC, and then shares photos and reflections of his trip to the Gesù

As the reader who sent this said, "reminds me of the time I repudiated the ‘D" I got in Physics." Milingo’s reaction. There’s a little canonical analysis, but not nearly enough, and the Unification tie is mentioned, but barely. There’s an interesting story here if someone would care enough to tell it.

A bit more commentary on Monday’s meeting with Muslim leaders, all courtesy of Papa Ratzinger Forum: Photo thread here. Also found on that thread are photos of a very happy religious sister from yesterday’s General Audience. From Avvenire, the newspaper of the Italian bishops: All the Muslim representatives agreed that the meeting with the Pope…

I don’t know if this just happened recently, but I just noticed that the entire text of the Compendium of the Social Teaching of the Catholic Church is online at the Vatican website. It seems to be the whole text, although it loads all on one page, which made me wonder. But…looking through it quickly,…

Henry Kissinger, in the area for other meetings, will meet with Benedcit tomorrow at Castel Gandolfo Also, via the Papa Raztinger Forum, an analysis of the Monday meeting from Il Giornale: But Benedict XVI said more, in a sense going beyond Regensburg. For many Muslims, there is a taboo word that is never said: reciprocity.…

At the USCCB: The first interesting point is that a part of the restructuring plan involves cutting the diocesan assessment to the USCCB by 16%. Under the plan, the "diocesan assessment" — essentially a tax that each dioceses pays to subsidize national conference operations — would be reduced 16 percent. Though the assessment accounts for…

Today is the memorial of St. Vincent de Paul, extraordinary servant of the poor. Some links: The Catholic Encyclopedia article on St. Vincent Most intriguingly, the Vincentians have a Wiki-type site with LOTS of articles. It’s a really excellent use of the Wiki model, because what they’ve done is construct a site that’s essentially a…

The questions about exactly what the deal is with the "bishops" ordained by Milingo on Saturday are still unanswered.  At this point, I’ve not seen anything really substantive, looking at all the elements in one spot, but for now, check out this post from yesterday for some initial reactions, keep your eye on canonist Ed…
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