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Want to be converted? Want to convert your opponents? Or just want to hear some sensible and profound discussion on faith and reason and whether belief–or unbelief–is right? Then check out this Beliefnet “blogalogue” between the distinguished Catholic theologian Michael Novak and the equally distinguished journalist (and skeptic) Heather MacDonald. (Novak has journalistic cred, too,…

Maryknoll priest Fr. Roy Bourgeois faces excommunication, according to the CDF. NCR has the story, based on a letter Bourgeois sent to the Vatican. According to Bourgeois’ letter, which is dated Nov. 7, the congregation has given the priest 30 days to recant his “belief and public statements that support the ordination of women in…

When the 2005 Vatican document on homosexuals and the priesthood came out, there was some debate over what Rome meant by its terms–such as “deep-seated” homosexuality, and whether the church wanted to bar even homosexuals capable of living a chaste life. When the follow-up document on psychological testing of seminarians came out this week, as…

…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…
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