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Tom Reese is a Jesuit priest and a political scientist of the Church whose balanced insights into the complex workings of the engine room of the Barque of St. Peter have made him an invaluable resource to journalists–and something of a bane to the Vatican (especially a fellow named Joseph Ratzinger). But I suspect for…

Can this be true? Catholic World News reports that an Italian bishop has refused to allow a church wedding for a paraplegic man because the impotence resulting from his crippling automobile accident would be grounds for an annulment. A spokesman for Bishop Lorenzo Chiarinelli of Viterbo explained that although the bride was aware of her…

Among all the tainted food (especially meat) tragedies that are cropping up these days–enough to make Sinclair Lewis rise up and write again–the tale of an outbreak of E.coli in apparently tainted beef served at a Lutheran church social in Minnesota is one of the saddest. One churchgoer, Carolyn Hawkinson, died after eating meatballs made…

No, not an incursion into the Middle East. Neither the Vatican, nor the Pope (current or past), nor the bishops, nor church teaching or tradition supported the American invasion of Iraq. But when President Bush, the author of that terrible tragedy, meets his new BFF, Pope Benedict XVI, in the Vatican later this week, the…
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