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In NCR(eporter), Joe Feuerherd with a good piece on current pressures on Catholic health systems, here: There are lots of problems and Grassley is very serious about it,” said John Olinger, a Washington lobbyist whose clients include nonprofit hospitals. The Senate Finance Committee chairman is expected to introduce legislation early next year that may seek…

An interesting story on some technical matters: An East Toledo parish that appealed its closing to the Vatican has won a partial victory from Rome and now plans to plead its case to the church’s highest court, according to a parishioner leading the effort. Bishop Leonard Blair of Toledo, however, said yesterday the ruling upholds…

As I hope you know, Catholic Exchange is starting to Podcast – Mark Shea was first out of the gate, and now he’s been joined by John Morales who does a daily show. Yesterday, he featured an intereview with yours truly, which is still hearable on the podcast page. Warning: There were times when I…

Someone has done an interesting thing – compared some pages from two different editions of a Richard Scarry book, editions 30 years apart. Some of the changes are reasonable – I have no problem bringing more gender balance into the portrayal of professions (although one wearies, in children’s books, that the police officer is always…

After Abortion brings together the links on all the recent reporting and commentary on Planned Parenthood, pregnant girls and statutory rape.

More on one of those approved for beatification the other day: Born on 1 April 1891 in Ramapuram in the diocese of Palai, Kerala, Fr Augustinus Thevarparampil entered the seminary of Palai and was ordained priest on 17 December 1921, aged 30, by Bishop Mar Tommasi Kurialacherry. In February 1923, he was sent as vice…

Let’s see…for the end of December so far, we have…Harper’s running two "I got smart and lost my Christian faith" pieces, the New Yorker running a lengthy profile of anti-Deity Phillip Pullman, and now look who’s on the cover of Newsweek! Silas! Do your magic! Our hopes that Silas might not be id’d as Opus…

Interesting image that is the Christmas greeting sent out by the Vatican Information Service. Info: Alfredo Bikondoa, 2005 DEI GENITRIX mixed media on wood93 x74

Fr. Septimus reminded me in a comment that I’d done "What Did You Hear" this week – well, I guess that was because I forgot what I heard because I was half-comotose on the couch all day Sunday. So belatedly – you can enter any random last minute Advent liturgical observations here, and do, in…

Two schoolchildren, two different schools, two Christmas programs. (Not that I, twenty years into this, sit through the whole thing. Forgive me. I figure out when mine is on, witness the event, and move on. As I said…twenty years.) Tonight: Joseph’s school, which has up to this point impressed me, in its old-style building, with…
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