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Bishop Ronald W. Gainer of Lexington has joined with local community leaders in condemning the act of hanging in effigy the Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama, which occurred on the University of Kentucky campus Oct. 29. “The reprehensible and cowardly action of the responsible individual or individuals went beyond the civilized limits of political…

…A major component of the new document, reported today by CNS, is to screen out men who, as Rome put it before, “are active homosexuals or who have “deep-seated” homosexual tendencies.” The document says psychological testing was appropriate in “exceptional cases that present particular difficulties” in seminary admission and formation, and “whenever there is a…

“As the day of the great convocation drew nigh, the proclamations of high churchmen rang out across the Land…” Yes, it’s getting intense, even a bit medieval, if you like Bishop Finn’s Muslim crusader analogy. The Globe’s Michael Paulson has a very good and comprehensive take this morning. While the intensity of the election battle…

It’s hard to tell, given the number of “alternative” voter guides out there. CNS’s Nancy Frazier O’Brien has a good and genteely-titled overview, “Do plethora of voter guides confuse or clarify issues for Catholics?” But that headline doesn’t convey the passion and divisiveness that goes into many of the rivals to the bishops’ own “Faithful…
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