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Joseph at the grocery story: "Mommy, chocolate eggs!" No, not in the candy section. The dairy section. As in brown eggs. Logical kid, eh?

One group of traditional Anglicans – don’t know how they fit into the big Anglican picture. The Traditional Anglican Communion is a small step closer to reestablishing unity with the Roman Catholic Church after a separation of five centuries. Leaders of the Anglican Church in America, one of the 44 national churches in the conservative…

Nouvelle Theologie – if you haven’t yet, do check it out.

Scroll down the last two paragraphs At the Labour Party conference where Mrs Blair toured stands yesterday, she posed for pictures holding a condom and cut a 75th anniversary cake for the Family Planning Association. A spokesman for the association said that Mrs Blair, who has four children, had remarked previously "that she was not…

A bishop puts out the call Bishop Saltarelli believes in the power of prayer. During the month of October–which is Respect Life Month–he is asking Catholics in his diocese to pray for a conversion of all politicians, statesmen, and lawyers to an respect for life. He has composed a Litany to St. Thomas More, which…

A bishop puts out the call Bishop Saltarelli believes in the power of prayer. During the month of October–which is Respect Life Month–he is asking Catholics in his diocese to pray for a conversion of all politicians, statesmen, and lawyers to an respect for life. He has composed a Litany to St. Thomas More, which…

Wisconsin moves to ban human cloning The Wisconsin State Senate made final passage of a comprehensive human cloning ban almost certain last night by defeating a “clone to kill” amendment that would have gutted the measure. Assembly Bill 499, authored by Representative Steve Kestell (R-Elkhart Lake) and Senator Joe Leibham (R-Sheboygan), would ban both “reproductive…

I just noticed that Andrew Sullivan has taken me to task You notice a couple of things about the two NYT op-eds that have appeared on the subject of the proposed ban on chaste gay seminarians in the Catholic church. The difference between Amy Welborn’s description of the new policy on her own website as…

Jim Manney’s Catholic reading group read it, and he reports!

Rocco reports and gives some context to Archbishop Rigali’s meeting with his priests yesterday One pastor took to the microphone to say he was "greatly disappointed in the archdiocese’s weak and deplorable" defense of Cardinals John Krol and Anthony J. Bevilacqua. The criticism was greeted with scattered applause, sources said. Another priest – trained in…

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