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Judge rules that parish assets are available: A federal bankruptcy judge yesterday ruled that churches and schools in the Catholic Diocese of Spokane are owned by the diocese and can be sold to pay settlements to sex-abuse victims, a decision that evoked both triumph and disappointment. The decision — the first of its kind in…

Vatican and Israel make up: A dispute between Israel and the Vatican over Pope Benedict XVI’s comments on terrorism appears to have been resolved, after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon sent a letter calling the pontiff "a true friend of Israel," Israel’s ambassador said Friday. Israel’s top diplomat at the Holy See, Oded Ben Hur,…

Two paths, two views: Andrew Dalton and Edward Fink started similar spiritual journeys. Affluent uber-Catholics in metro Atlanta, they frequently attended Mass and practiced traditional church teachings. Ultimately, they joined the Legionaries of Christ, the orthodox religious order that aggressively recruits young men for the priesthood. Their odysseys mirror the controversial group: a journey of…

I think it was Wednesday, when I dropped Joseph off at school, I felt this surge of guilt. You have just started a little boy, I thought, on the beginnings of a 14-year prison term. Good for you. (Yeah, homeschooling. I’m not constituted to homeschool a 4-year old, and this particular 4-year old needs some…

From an Australian television station, ultrasound record of a "foetal cry" – an unborn baby reacting to audio stimulus with what certainly looks like…crying. Via Off the Record

I finally finished reading this book, while waiting at the DMV or whatever they call it here (I actually don’t mind experiences like that – the DMV is the great leveler. Everyone’s there, because you can’t have your nanny go get your driver’s license on your behalf. I sat next to a Latina who was…

…and their money. Planned Parenthood made sweetheart deal with RU-486  morning after-pill manufacturer? (My bad on the original post. Sorry!)

Some of the other RC blogs are abuzz with the meeting, scheduled for Monday, between Pope Benedict XVI and Bishop Bernard Fellay, head of the Fraternity of the Society of St. Pius X. Rocco Palmo has questions for those who are enthusiastic about the meeting Papabile comments here, here and here. Vaticanisti has a post…

From Chiesa, but not by Magister, a litte more theological…but still excellent: Gently, but firmly, Benedict XVI unveiled, there upon the heights of the hillside of Marienfeld, the convergence of a series of essential symbols within the host – a burning and visible reality! That which was raised up before the whole world’s eyes, should…

An excellent Christianity Today profile of Nina Shea, of the the Center for Religous Freedom, tireless and heroic fighter for human rights and religious freedom. In Haiti, Shea met a Dutch priest and former classics professor who was starting schools and soup kitchens in "the worst slum of the Western world." "They were living under…
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