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In case you’ve been interested in the Philadelphia story, but intimidated by the length of the report, the good people at the Bishop Accountability site have done us all a service by posting an easier to read copy online . They’ve also pulled out the names of the priests involved, delineated their sins and crimes,…

Cardinal George permanently removes 11 from ministry In the final resolution of cases that made headlines at the height of the Catholic Church’s sex abuse scandal, Cardinal Francis George has permanently removed 11 priests from public ministry because of sexual misconduct with children. Fourteen Chicago cases had been forwarded to the Vatican for review since…

-UT team busses stop, for some reason, in the midst of parking lots where LSU students have congregated. Students converge, start rocking busses, throwing beer bottles at them,  break windows, including 4 on the bus holding the AD. Good move. -A student with no money on him is approached by LSU coed, asking for donations…

Allen updates his piece with an interview with Kueng It’s clear that we have different positions," Küng told NCR in a telephone interview from his home in Tübingen, Germany. "But the things we have in common are more fundamental. We are both Christians, both priests in service of the church, and we have great personal…

Amy Sullivan takes abortion activists to task for their influence on the Dems But the final straw came when Senate Democrats acted on this advice and recruited pro-life Democrat Bob Casey to run against Rick Santorum for Pennsylvania’s Senate seat in 2006. Pro-choice advocates lashed out. National Organization for Women president Kim Gandy called out…

Vietnamese gov’t loosens seminary regulations – will allow new students every year, instead of every two years New pressures on Catholics in one Chinese province: While there are signs of improvement in ties between the Vatican and Bejing, the Hebei government has launched a new campaign of persecution against the clandestine Catholic Church throughout the…

Christian leaders cause shock and dismay The head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, and Church of England bishop Reverend Tom Butler have both suggested that Muslim faith schools may be inappropriate for Christian children. The comments are likely to feed into the debate about faith schools, and the…

Light in the Ivy League –

J-N’-Vs statement on the Benedict-Kueng meeting. Really. Read it before you’re tempted to start picking. Again. It doesn’t say "agree to disagree," it says: Both agreed that it made no sense, in the framework of the meeting, to enter into a dispute on the persistent doctrinal differences between Hans Küng and the magisterium of the…

I’m a little too wiped out at this point to read closely, but NCR(eporter) this week features an analysis of a long -range survey of American Catholics: Our research teams have carried out four surveys of American Catholics. The first survey in the spring of 1987 was carried out in anticipation of Pope John Paul…
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