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A column in the SF Chronicle, taking FEMA to task No, this one’s a little different: Immediately after the hurricane, there were only two secular organizations to which FEMA’s Web site urged that contributions be made; all the others were faith-based. What’s worse, in at least some instances, FEMA relied on faith-based charities to spearhead…

Big Eucharistic procession in Philly

Federal Judge blocks new abortion-regulatory law The role that conflicts over embryo-destructive stem cell research is playing in state politics: Many anti-abortion groups equate the research with the destruction of human life. Blunt disagrees. He says the research is ethical, and he champions it as a key to promoting the state’s biotechnology industry. The fate…

Go to Midwest Conservative Journal for a New Thin Man…Anglican/Catholic blogosphere style Can’t wait to read the next installment…

Thanks to RP for sending along this link to a piece in The Chronicle for Higher Education on Rome’s ecclesiastical universities. Very fair, balanced and informative. Did you know that for a lay person, tuition is only 2500 bucks a year at one of these institutions????? In addition to the core subjects of theology, philosophy,…

Lansing priest works with Hispanic congrgation, with great success: Thelen estimated that the membership included about 300 families when he started in July 1993. There are about 600 families now – a result of increased awareness of the church as well as the area’s growing Hispanic population, he said. "It’s been a blessing to be…

Some people have asked exactly what it is – the Amazon listing I have linked on the right is not helpful, so I’ll change that soon. The Loyola list has a bit more information. It’s a 365-devotional, small, compact. Every day’s entry begins with a Scripture quote, then has a couple of paragraphs of material…

That’s what the Catholic Action Center in Lexington has served in the five years of its existence – without a dime of government money.

Some of you are under the delusion that I’m really famous and well-paid. Well, I’m neither. Who cares, right, but my point is that while I’m glad my work impacts the people it does, the field is still wide open. For example, to satisfy the curiosity of some (who sometimes post snide comments about my…
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