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Friars hitching their way On the sun-baked sidewalk near an Interstate 581 entrance ramp, two Franciscan friars prayed for a ride Thursday afternoon as they waited in their woolen robes, thumbs in the air. They were on their way to Nicaragua from Emmitsburg, Md., where they started their journey Wednesday – without money or food.…

Cardinal Dulles says Bishops’ abuse policy extreme The nation’s pre-eminent Roman Catholic theologian, Cardinal Avery Dulles, called in a speech published yesterday for reconsideration of the “zero tolerance” policy toward sex abuse by priests that U.S. bishops adopted two years ago in Dallas. In the speech, delivered to a Catholic group in Florida on May…

With nowhere to go in the voting booth. Given the limitations of each party, it’s hard to blame pro-life progressives’ temptation to stay home and throw their hands up in frustration. Polls show that a sizeable number of pro-life Democrats voted for Bush in 2000, although few expect a repeat of that in 2004, given…

Catholic school teacher fired for having child baptized in a Protestant church. But Abigail’s baptism in her father’s Protestant church – to which her proud mother invited school colleagues – violated the terms of Anne Souza’s contract at St. Mary’s School, according to pastor Monsignor John Oliveira. “I can’t put on this robe and be…
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