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From today’s “Houses of Worship” column, which is titled “Is One Man’s Faith Another’s Superstition?” I try to explore the difference between religion and superstition, or witchcraft, an issue that the pope raised in Angola last week. An excerpt: The difference between superstitions and religion is not only the difference between meaning and randomness, and…

Well, let’s hope it’s final. Just as a bit of housekeeping, it seems that after editing and changing some of Pope Benedict’s comments on condoms when he was in Africa–and prompting an uproar–the official text is back to what the pope originally said on the plane to reporters. Why? Perhaps Fr. Lombardi told them to set…

Many of you know Rocco Palmo’s “Whispers in the Loggia.” Well now you can visit Fr. Guy Selvester’s “Shouts in the Piazza,” which he has resucitated by popular demand. Father Guy in a parish priest in my native New Jersey (eat your hearts out) and an expert in heraldry. He’ll still be doing that, and…

“Never mind.” That seems to be Archbishop Burke’s take on his explosive interview with Randall Terry of Operation Rescue in which he took Obama voters and his brother bishops in the U.S. to task for being softies. Rocco has the text of Burke’s mea culpa: ROME, Italy – In response to the March 25, 2009…

A remarkable development in the Obama-to-Notre Dame saga, via Thomas Peters, the “American Papist”: Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix has sent Fr. John Jenkins, president of Notre Dame, an email saying his invitation to Obama to speak at the May 17 commencement and receive an honorary degree was “a public act of disobedience to US Bishops.”…

That’s the thrust of Archbishop Raymond Burke’s message to Operation Rescue’s Randall Terry, who released video of his interview this week. Terry, who is leading one of the more eye-popping campaigns against Obama’s Notre Dame appearance, had promised “candor and clarity” and words of “thunder” from Burke, the former archbishop of St. Louis and now Prefect…

Hey, the former House Speaker, pro-death-penalty, thrice-married, GOP comeback kid is making it official and becoming a Catholic this Saturday at St. Joseph’s Church, the venerable Capitol Hill parish. The WaPo’s Chris Cillizza has The Fix. Media Matters details Gingrich’s deep disappointment that Notre Dame would invite Obama, whose policies are “so anti-Catholic.” Okay. So…

I saw this photo while flipping through The Times this morning, and at first I thought it might be a new installation by the artist Richard Serra. Instead, it is an image, beautiful yet terrible, of a recently completed section of the fence the United States is building across dunes along the border with Mexican…

In his press conference last night President Obama took a question from The Washington Times’ John Ward about his controversial stem cell decision last month–an announcement that left me, and many others, rather cold. Obama’s response was intriguing in that he grappled more humanly with the ethics of the issue, and seemed to speak in terms of…

Bishop John M. D’Arcy of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, which includes Notre Dame, has released a statement on the university’s invitation to President Obama to deliver the main commencement address and receieve an honorary degree on May 17. (Full text is in the post below.) Bishop D’Arcy says ND president Father John Jenkins, CSC…
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