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Bishop reveals : Detroit Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton revealed Wednesday that he had been sexually molested by a priest when he was a teenager attending Detroit Sacred Heart Seminary’s onetime high school for boys. With his revelation, Gumbleton, 75, became the first Catholic bishop in the United States to acknowledge such abuse. He also broke…

Michael on yesterday’s Gethsemani visit

The settlement/negotiations crawl forward…Diogenes unpacks the meaning of the latest. The basic deal is that there are 560 outstanding claims against the Archdiocese. The Archdiocese has agreed to allow litigation (as opposed to out of court settlement) of 44 of these – all occurring from 1958 to 1985, the first year of Cardinal Mahony’s tenure…

We blogged on the beginning of this conversation last week, then got overwhelmed by our own Zygotes-turned-Big-Men come to visit. You might remember Andrew Sullivan putting out a call to readers regarding the mortality rate of zygotes, implying that this has something pertinent to do with the right to research on/kill said zygotes. At The…

…this could have been taken care of sooner: Pastor of LA Cathedral cancels Christian unity event that featured, among others, Vesulla Ryden: The Roman Catholic cathedral of Los Angeles on Monday rescinded its invitation to hold a Christian unity conference later this month after concluding that the principal speaker was to be a controversial self-proclaimed…

Are evangelical Protestant ministers into blessing doors with oil? Maybe, if it’s the doors to a government hearing room… Insisting that God "certainly needs to be involved" in the Supreme Court confirmation process, three Christian ministers today blessed the doors of the hearing room where Senate Judiciary Committee members will begin considering the nomination of…

Bishop Olmstead of Phoenix on contraception: Birth control is a grave wrong that is at the root of many of the problems afflicting American society, Catholic Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted said in a series of articles that reopened a contentious debate in the church and augmented his credentials as one of the most conservative bishops…

On his way down to the Catholic Marketing Network gathering in Birmingham, MIchael stopped at the Trappist monastery in Gethsemane for Evening Prayer. At the bookstore he met an old friend whom he didn’t know had joined up with the Trappists. Small world, but actually not – the Catholic world is pretty small. Anyway, he…

…with gazillions of books in print….the paperback version of DVC is finally on the way (in the US) . 5 million copy first printing.

Long-time friend of this blog, Conor Dugan: One of the primary lessons I learned from Judge Alito was about what a judge is and is not in our constitutional system. Much popular thinking about the judicial function holds that the judiciary is just another extension of politics. In this view, a judge ought to attempt…
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