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The Brazilian bishop’s hunger strike continues: He is supported by his order (Franciscans) Thousands gather in support Photos here, via newswires

Here He didn’t do that. Why didn’t he? Old standard answer: In time of war he didn’t want to pick a fight with Congress that he didn’t have to pick. Obvious reply: So in time of war he picks a fight with his base? Also: The Supreme Court isn’t the kind of fight you "don’t…

The pastor of the Torres’ parish writes in the bulletin (scroll down) Baby Susan herself, by her very weakness and helplessness, forced us to reexamine our standards. In her, as in all the unborn who silently appeal to us for life, we encounter the truth that, “God chose what is weak in the world to…

South Caroline parish adopts Mississippi parish…

Adult stem-cells The Roman Catholic Church in South Korea said yesterday it will donate millions of dollars for research into adult stem cells, supported by critics of embryonic stem cell projects as a more humane alternative. The Archdiocese of Seoul will provide 10 billion won (US$9.6 million) to a committee that will support adult stem-cell…

This Aussie is scathing on the latest from We Are The Church IMWAC has published a call on their website for the Bishops gathered in Synod to drop the theology of Transubstantiation and sacrifice. The fact that Europe fought immensely destructive wars over precisely these subjects for the best part of a century obviously escapes…

Michael said he heard Fr. Fessio on NPR’s Fresh Air today, talking about the homosexuality in the priesthood thing, and said he was quite good, almost quietly but powerful evangelical about Church teaching v. the culture, in general. I’d hoped to hear it online. But, to protect the anonymity of their other guest, they’re not…

Full text of the General Audience today The liturgy is the privileged place to listen to the divine Word, which renders present the Lord’s salvific acts, but it is also the circle in which the communitarian prayer rises which celebrates divine love. God and man meet in a saving embrace, which finds its fulfillment precisely…

TMatt takes an exhaustive look at the Miers-Religion stories today in the MSM, but doesn’t touch the latest blogRumor…articulated by John Podhoretz at The Corner: A friend, one of the wisest analysts of politics I know, asks the following fascinating questions: Did the president pick Harriet Miers because she is an evangelical Christian? Is this…

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