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I will be putting up a few posts, but keeping comments closed on most of them ’til Tuesday. It’s one less thing I have to do when I return – sort through comments and complaints about other commenters…

Just to let you know, this is how it will happen over the next day: I am flying to LAX tomorrow morning, getting there around 2:30. My host/talk impresario has said that yes, there’s enough time to take me up to the LA Cathedral to have a look. I’m actually not predisposed to negativity in…

…what others are reporting. And we know how these things work, especially with translating European news sources.  But here’s the story: The Vatican is expected to permit the use of condoms for AIDS patients, according to an interview with a high-ranking cardinal published Sunday. The Vatican is currently working on a document on the subject…

Trying to be all things to all people Mr. Casey himself is emphasizing that while there is "tremendous disagreement" on abortion, there is also a broad consensus of which he is a part: to reduce the number of abortions by reducing the number of unintended pregnancies, through greater access to contraception and family planning. Other…

The Pope at today’s Regina Coeli: At the end of the ceremony, his first greetings were in Greek and Russian to wish Happy Easter to the Orthodox Churches, which are celebrating Easter today. “My best regards go to our brothers of the Eastern Churches which are celebrating Easter today,” Benedict XVI said. “May the Risen…

Post title swiped from Rocco who has news on the KC front – very inside baseball, but a number of us have been following the relatively recent tenure of Bishop Finn in this diocese (Bishop Finn came from St. Louis, where he was widely respected, and editor of the diocesan paper, among other things). In…

…what is it the air at places like Menard’s, Home Depot and Lowes that just makes you want to buy stuff? Anyone? Anyone?

Catholic press barred from presumably open meetings in Colorado: On Thursday, a Denver Catholic Register journalist, and the respective editors of ‘New Advent’ and Catholic News Agency approached to the office of Joan Fitz-Gerald, president of the Colorado Senate, expecting to attend a scheduled luncheon with Detroit’s Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton, who was in town…

Ministry to the deaf in New York: Father Bruce is one of seven deaf priests ministering in the United States, said the Rev. Thomas Coughlin, head of the Dominican Missionaries for the Deaf Apostolate in Hayward, Calif. Four deaf seminarians are studying to be priests, the most ever at one time, according to the National…

After a few days of pre-trial activity and jury selection, the trial of the priest accusing of murdering a nun years ago began yesterday in Toledo. After the two sides finished opening statements, the 12 jurors and four alternates were taken by bus to the former hospital, now a college, about 1½ miles from the…
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