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Someone below asked exactly what is this Synod I keep posting about and what is it supposed to do. In The Tablet, a primer: Is the synod deliberative or consultative?This is the twenty-first time the Synod of Bishops has met since Pope Paul VI instituted it in 1965 at the end of the Second Vatican…

Bill also links to a letter from Oregon’s Bishop Vasa, telling USCCB Child Protection that it’s crossed a line: The next topic is one that I bring up only with great reluctance for I do not want to give any appearance whatsoever of being soft on my desire to assure the complete safety and protection…

Bill Cork has unearthed two good links today: First, a Reuters story that in turn reports on a paper in the Italian press that claims to know the real content of the Guide to Witch Hunts: The Vatican will allow gay men into the priesthood if they can show they have been celibate for at…

Heinz-Joachim Fischer, the author of a book on B16 (reviewed near the bottom of this piece) spoke at St. Vincent College in LaTrobe last night. Two reports, first from Ann Rogers: This will get you going: Mr. Fischer was also not surprised when, at a meeting with priests in July, Pope Benedict said he wanted…

E.J. Dionne today: Now we know: President Bush’s supporters are prepared to be thoroughly hypocritical when it comes to religion. They’ll play religion up or down, whichever helps them most in a political fight. Shortly after Bush named John Roberts to the Supreme Court, a few Democrats, including Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), suggested that the…

Diocese of Richmond makes arrangements About 15 months ago, a lay minister at St. Nicholas Catholic Church was arrested and accused of trying to solicit sex from an undercover police officer – an adult male – in Red Wing Park. Terrell L. Mailhiot, 56, minister of justice and peace at St. Nicholas, pleaded not guilty,…

An incentive from the Archdiocese: Priests, it turns out, are prone to bad habits, like everyone else. Some smoke; others eat too much. So as old priests die off faster than new ones replace them, and health care costs climb, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York is taking steps to conserve its precious and…

What did God tell the president during the Red Mass, anyway? While sitting a few rows behind President Bush at church on Sunday, I saw a striking image–one that may help explain how he decides whom to appoint to the federal bench. The service was Catholic, and Mr. Bush is a Methodist, so he wasn’t…

Alabama youth ministry features goldfish swallowing The First Assembly of God Church has a Fear Factor ministry that had youths swallowing live goldfish — if they were up to it. The church’s youth minister says it teaches children about fear, but a grandparent questioned it and a pet shop owner called it animal cruelty. "Fear…

Posted here. Interesting stuff, including, I think, this rather insightful comment by a French bishop: Eucharistic Adoration is notably mentioned in numbers 41, 66, 67 and 75.We can see that, in our countries, Eucharistic Adoration is very taken by the young Catholic generations. For these young generations, this is not a rediscovery, it is, purely…
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