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Garry Wills in the NYTimes (forgive me if this has already been beaten to death in Blogdom, but I just got back, so give me a break.) All I am saying is that the bishops have no special mandate from their office to supplant the individual conscience with some divine imperative. For them to say…

Joseph Califano on squaring church and state. The Second Vatican Council encourages Catholics to rely more on individual conscience. But not until I became secretary of HEW did I begin to appreciate the significance — and limitations — of my personal convictions in making public decisions in a pluralistic democracy. I had been immersed in…

Reporting on the Kerry/Communion issue from an Italian source Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, was clear with Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, archbishop of Washington and the head of the “domestic policy” commission of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ conference. He was more than clear, he set it down…

Filing suit against the Vatican Bank re the Frankel case The scam that threw these unlikely antagonists together began in 1998 when Frankel formed a bogus Catholic charity, the St. Francis of Assisi Foundation, with $55 million. The Vatican got $5 million of the seed money, according to court documents. Colagiovanni agreed to oversee St.…
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