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…is the dishonesty. The woman from Dignity who was on the show went through their talking points, which were breathtaking: That the Church has ALWAYS ordained gay men, that there are gay men – no, that’s not what she said. She said – there are LGBT saints. That the Church is still ordaining gay men.…

Lengthy interview on the subject with an Orthodox Metropolitan So, in your opinion what is a realistic common ground for common answers to such open questions?     ZIZIOULAS: For the future development of dialogue on this issue, it is of crucial importance that the Orthodox accept that primacy is part of the essence of the…

Opus Dei bishop critiques big monstrous Masses. Via Rocco

…in a few minutes (1 Eastern, to be precise,) I’m going to be a guest on this show out of a public radio station in San Francisco. I think you can listen online. I was initially told that the topic would be seminary visitation, but I see from the website it has now been transformed…

John Allen’s report today: An area of clash came in discussion of the Eucharist as sacrifice, and the need to balance between the horizontal and vertical dimensions of the Mass. In the open session Wednesday night, Cardinal George Pell of Australia voiced concern that talk about “various presences” of Christ, such as in the community,…

There is apparently trouble at Ave Maria Law School. Here is a blog about it. Being that lawyers are involved, it also contains posts about Miers, etc. But what is going on at the law school is disheartening, beginning, it seems, with the Board of Governors’ removal of Professor Charles Rice from the Board. Unrelated,…

Caution on Turkey and the EU from the Curia: Speaking to the Italian daily La Repubblica, the President of the Pontifical Council for Culture, Cardinal Paul Poupard, said a resolution addressing the lack of religious freedom and the discrimination against Christians in Turkey is urgent before a decision can be made about accepting that country…

From The American Conservative (which is Pat Buchanan’s mag, is it not?) an article on the Purest Neocon – Christopher Hitchens. Of interest – his views on religion. Which we all know, but anyway: As both the Hari and Didcock interviews make clear, Hitchens was able to overcome his past squeamishness about American military force…

You know, every time I hear about these bishops breaking into language-based working groups as the Synod, I have to wonder if they’re sitting around on folding chairs, staring dully at a heavy-set woman with dyed-blond hair in a burnt-orange pantsuit (’cause Halloween’s coming!), wielding butcher-block paper, markers,  and a pack of color-coded dot stickers,…

Says evolution’s okay, tells bloggers to stop arguing about him A senior Roman Catholic cardinal seen as a champion of "intelligent design" against Darwin’s explanation of life has described the theory of evolution as "one of the very great works of intellectual history". Vienna Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn said he could believe both in divine creation…
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