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A couple of updates/clarifications on stories we’ve followed here in the past: The Staten Island pastor who took desperate measures to combat non-Mass-attending families has a new fan – the mother of one of the affected families When she finally spoke to Father Cichon last week, they discussed the issue but the conversation then veered…

I don’t know how I missed this one, but here’s the quite interesting interview with Bishop Finn of KC from their diocesan paper Bishop Finn, who was formerly a priest of the archdiocese of St. Louis, and editor of their diocesan paper for many years, has great plans. (I met him in 2000 when he…

Of great concern to some parents has been the question of vaccines derived from aborted fetal tissue. This has been an issue for some time, that came to the fore especially when the chicken pox vaccine became available and then required in many states. Here’s a recent Vatican statement on the vaccines and moral culpability:…

From Aidan Nichols, O.P, In this article I attempt an overview in four parts. First, I shall discuss why Catholics should not only show some ecumenical concern for Orthodoxy but also treat the Orthodox as their privileged or primary ecumenical partner. Secondly, I shall ask why the schism between the Catholic and Orthodox churches occurred,…

NBC’s Jim Cummins has sued the Archdiocese of Dubuque Mr. Cummins, chief of NBC News’ Southwest Bureau, was an altar boy and high school basketball star in Cedar Rapids. In the summer of 1962, when he was 17, he was abused by three priests, he said in his lawsuit. One of those he accused, the…

Thanks to the folks at the Crossroads Initiative, the excellent website of Marcellino D’Ambrosio, for featuring De-Coding on its debunking DVC page!

Washington sits on a substratum of Catholic conservatism that few people who aren’t from here understand. It goes back to Georgetown University and pre-D.C. Maryland history. It is that community that Roberts represents, and that Bush is paying homage to with this pick. Howard Fineman  Hugh Hewitt apparently asked Fineman about this column today, and…

You might be surprised where he’s been…

Michael’s going to be on this show in a second.(it’s 4:10) Listen here.

For all the writers out there,,,, ..to put us in our place. Via Lickona
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