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Lent begins. And here’s the Pope’s Lenten message..just so you’ll be ready. Read it for part #254 of Benedict Spins Our Heads Around. For you see, after last week, when some accused the Pope of getting all retreat-from-the-world on us, as he carefully teased apart justice and charity and the Church’s role in regard to…

William Saletan and Katha Pollitt are going to discuss this at SLATE. So far, it’s only Saletan, but we’ll see. Could be interesting to see this stuff discussed in the open. Get Zoe Williams in there and we’d have real fireworks.

Article=interesting. Correction at the end of article=priceless. H/T  – Ronny!

Well, that was…tiring! Had two good talks – the first, at the high school, seemed to go fine, although, you know, 900 high schoolers at 2pm – well, who knows how much they absorbed. They were very well-behaved, though, I’ll say that for them. The second talk went famously. David Hartline did a great job…

Come here us speak tonight at St. Joan of Arc in Powell! Details on the right rail.. Til tomorrow!

Zoe Williams of the Guardian is fed up with all this nonsense: …there is no ethical value to this mawkish fetishisation of the foetus. The time limit "debate" is not a debate – it doesn’t have the transparency or frankness to warrant the name. To anyone who wants to peddle an anti-abortion position, well, bring…

Regarding the situation that’s been brewing for a week now over a Chicago priest wilth accusations who was never removed, Cardinal George met with parishioners last night: Police and prosecutors concluded at the time there was not enough evidence to press charges, then notified the archdiocese. Church officials said McCormack was not removed from ministry…

Th e WaPo looks at conscience clause proposals across the land: The swell of propositions is raising alarm among advocates for abortion rights, family planning, AIDS prevention, the right to die, gays and lesbians, and others who see the push as the latest manifestation of the growing political power of social conservatives. "This is a…

Rocco reports on a confab being called for Wednesday in France…go read if SSPX doings are of interest. Very interesting.

This will make you snort, from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune report on encyclical reax (actually a reprint from the Toronto paper – so note that it was probably Canadian "Catholic scholars" who were consulted) : Few Catholic scholars contacted this week had read the encyclical or planned to do so. Two professed amusement at the notion…
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