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With you-know-what. Okay, I know. It’s a way of evangelizing. I hope it works. And I also know that every time I give a talk on this, folks come up to me with stories about the impact of this dreadful piece of dreck. So it matters. And the good thing is, my state of fed-up…

I was just speaking to a woman who used to be a parish Director of Religious Education. She recounted a time when someone in her parish offered to teach a course in Biblical Greek. Some powers that were demurred, suggesting that no, that’s not what people would want. They want to (wait for it) share…

No, not that one…another one. At Marriage Debate, Jennifer Roback Morse and Cristina Page are discussing, "Is Contraception Good For Society?" Maggie Gallagher introduced the debate and the participants: Is contraception good for society? Jennifer Roeback Morse and Cristina Page went looking for a place in the blogosphere to have this debate, and MarriageDebate.com volunteered.…

A priest shares a secret; some aren’t pleased Sexually assaulted by a priest as a 25-year old seminarian; he received some compensation from the Archdiocese of Boston a few years ago, but still, the secret gnawed at him: He picked Holy Week. And that Tuesday, as about 20 hospital staff and patients’ relatives filed into…

This is Ramesh Ponnuru’s new book. The title is provocative and a bit misleading. The "party of death" refers to those who support unfettered abortion access, assisted suicide, embryo-destructive research, and so on – politicians, activists, scholars, judges and medical types. Included in that Venn diagram is the Democratic Party, but to tell the truth,…

The schedule: The Holy Father will depart from Rome’s Fiumicino airport at 8.40 a.m. on Thursday, May 25, arriving in Warsaw at 11 a.m. Following the welcome ceremony, he will hold a meeting with clergy in the cathedral of St. John. At 5.45 p.m. the Pope will pay a courtesy visit to the president of…

A piece on Frances’ (relatively) high birthrate Researchers admit that their understanding of the relatively high French birth rate still retains a degree of mystery. "For every rule you can come up with you find an exception," said Grant. Pison agreed: "There is a bit of mystery. We are doing studies but we don’t yet…

Enjoy the Prom! And let’s take you to see a movie afterwards! Yup. I heard about this several weeks ago, and it’s finally made the papers. A group of Carroll High School parents is outraged that the school’s parent organization is sponsoring a post-prom trip to see the film “The Da Vinci Code” in May.…

A Notre Dame alumna writes: I graduated from Notre Dame in 2004. At that time "The Vagina Monologues" was just beginning to reach its zenith on our campus. I particularly remember a day in LaFortune when I was studying for an exam. I was on my way out and as I was walking toward the…

New post up. I think. It’s not showing yet, but should be there soon. In which we address the question, "But I appreciate the way The Da Vinci Code" brings faith and fiction together! It’s so intriguing and enriching!"
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