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A DC priest is transferred, and no one is pleased A popular priest who is being forced out as pastor of a Georgetown parish by Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, archbishop of Washington, has groused publicly about his ouster, and his congregation is rallying to his defense.     Parishioners at the red-brick Church of the…

Bush, the GOP and life… Defenders of the Prez’ cred on the issue often point to the administrations refusal to give money to the UN Population Fund Very nice. But, David Alexander wonders what about Title X, which funds Planned Parenthood right here, and which this year saw another increase in funding?

In Mission Impossible 3, Tom Cruise, with a dash of irony, will be dashing around the Vatican But it seems Cruise and the film’s director J.J. Abrams have come up against one truly impossible mission: filming inside the Vatican city state. Italian media said the Vatican denied them access. Instead, they have reportedly recreated the…

The Atlanta Protestant church sees tradition as an obstacle. The excommunicated priest sees the bare hotel room as an obstacle and needs the visuals: An ultra-inclusive splinter church led by an excommunicated Roman Catholic priest has moved from a hotel banquet room to a vacant Episcopal church, where the 300-member group will celebrate its first…

Militant Catholics attacked riot police with homemade grenades and gasoline bombs Tuesday in an explosion of fury over the Orange Order, a Protestant brotherhood that staged mass parades across Northern Ireland.

The Rev. Andy Stanley believes if you’re going to build a church in Buckhead, it ought to look like an office building. (Son of Charles Stanley, incidentally) From the reader who sent it in: They have a huge church outside Atlanta and have a satellite church in the Buckhead area that shows him on a…

Co-adjutor was to be ordained tomorrow.

Because of Pope Benedict? According to the International Herald Tribune , the bishops had been leaning toward a call for Arroyo’s resignation, until Archbishop Antonio Franco, the apostolic nuncio in the Philippines, delivered a message from Pope Benedict warning the bishops against involvement in partisan politics. In an address to the bishops’ meeting, the papal…

KVSS in Omaha is a really strong, growing Catholic radio station – I was told this morning that their recent fund drive to upgrade their signal netted a million in a matter of two months. Quite impressive. I’ll be on their morning show this Friday, from 8-9 central, talking about Loyola Classics, then next Friday…

A NYTimes article on the growing presence of evangelical chaplains in the military, and questions about their role Chaplain Edward T. Brogan, director of the Presbyterian Council for Chaplains and Military Personnel, who recruits and recommends chaplain candidates for several Presbyterian churches, calls the change "a supply and demand issue." "I regularly am contacted by…
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