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Rob Vischer has more concerns about that hearing yesterday on church finances Robert Araujo’s misgivings about the legislative effort in Massachusetts to require financial disclosure by all nonprofit organizations, including churches, are underscored by the public hearing held yesterday on the issue.  The Boston archdiocese was widely criticized for not participating in the hearing, which…

Monsignor Clark has resigned – Rocco’s got the goods. As well as another good post on a previous scandal related to a prominent Archdiocesan cleric, Bishop McCarthy

From a reader: I was reading the NYTimes story linked on Drudge in re: the NARAL ad attacking John Roberts. I saw this and noticed something funny: (More after the jump because cutting and pasting made the spacing all weird and I don’t have time to fix it.)

Today is the day on which we remember St. Clare If you click on the picture to the left, you’ll go to a site that has an interesting and helpful outline of her life and examination of her writings and the Rule. Clare’s most well-known letters were to St. Agnes of Prague, (or Bohemia) who…

More Boston, of course. At Mirror of Justice, Robert Araujo comments on the proposed legislation in Massachusetts : Pressure was then used by the civil authorities on the Church and its officials and members for questionable objectives. Is what is going on in Boston today a repetition? In Old England it was the matter of…

Vatican rules that Boston Archdiocese can’t claim parish assets In a ruling that presents new complications for a sweeping reconfiguration plan in the Boston archdiocese, the Vatican has ruled that the archdiocese cannot unilaterally claim the assets of parishes that have been closed. The Vatican decision affects not only the Boston archdiocese– where it could…

100 members of China’s underground Church to be at WYD Visiting the pope on the way Another contingent of Chinese people has visited the Pope. They were present at this morning’s audience of Benedict XVI in Paul VI Hall, just as a Chinese group attended the audience last week. Today’s group consisted of 120 youths…

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Levada agrees…could he have avoided the scene last week? During a farewell Mass last Sunday in San Francisco, Levada was served with a subpoena to take his deposition on Friday. But Erin Olson, a Portland attorney who represents Oregon victims of alleged priest sex abuse, said Wednesday that Levada has agreed to accept U.S. Bankruptcy…

The Sacremento Bee on James Holman, who publishes an alternative San Diego weekly, as well as a small set of feisty California conservative Catholic monthlies The focus is on Holman’s financial support of pro-life ballot initiatives, but describes his little publishing empire, which is fascinating to me: While his Catholic newspapers fan passions of anti-abortionists…
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