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Priest trouble: A Catholic priest in Sonoma has been dismissed following a report of sexual misconduct with a minor and the Sheriff’s Department has launched a criminal investigation, officials said Monday. The Rev. Xavier Ochoa, 67, assistant pastor of St. Francis Solano Parish, reportedly came forward and admitted a single incident involving a young male…

Tragedy in Indonesia, thousands dead: The Caritas International webpage, with information about their relief efforts (Caritas is the international Catholic relief agency – Catholic Relief Services is the US branch) CRS page with a donation button – apparently also looming is the possible (some say probable) eruption of a volcano in the area affected by…

You might recall the Irish Augustinian priests who brought in Church of Ireland ministers to concelebrate Mass a few weeks ago. Rumor is he’s been sacked from his teaching position: For the last two years Fr O’Donovan has spent six months of the year in Rome teaching church history at the institute, which is known…

The Pope at Auschwitz: The sight of a German Pope crossing into the death camp beneath the infamously false Nazi sign, "Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work Will Set You Free), is arguably the most striking image of Benedict’s 14-month-old papacy. Walking alone with his hands clasped in front of him, an utterly grim expression fixed across…

It will be a fine day when reporters on stories like this go to abortion-rights groups for their reactions. And press them on their reactions. And print them. Of course, it will be a finer day when these stories no longer have to be written.

Kneel Terry Mattingly on the kneeling wars piece in the LA Times.

We’re going to be on the road from Tuesday morning through late Wednesday night. I’ll be speaking in Milwaukee tomorrow night and Wednesday morning. Tuesday night is for everyone, and I thought Wednesday morning was for parish/pastoral ministers, but judging from the website, perhaps not. From Milwaukee, we shoot down to Chicago, where I will…

The texts of all the addresses are here. Photos here. Ian Fisher in the NYTimes: It is uncertain whether the pope’s lack of emphasis on the role of ordinary Germans will anger Jewish groups. Benedict, though, is well known to top Jewish leaders, who have met with him for decades in an effort to improve…

All of the papal remarks from the Poland trip are up now: To young people: My friends, in the heart of every man there is the desire for a house. Even more so in the young person’s heart there is a great longing for a proper house, a stable house, one to which he can…

…you could say it’s Joseph and Jesus. You could. (Note – the listing is now much simpler than before. It now ID’s the statuette properly – as Joseph and Jesus. But the original description id’d it as Jesus and "Sarah" (the name of his child w/ MM, according to Margaret Starbird, et al, and had…
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