A Zenit interview with a professor specializing in the Chaldean rite. Quite interesting details on liturgy and other practices. Q: What is the role of deacons and women in the Chaldean rite? Monsignor Yousif: The deacon leads the community for proper participation in the Mass. The role of women is to assist the priest in…

It would be interesting to meet and talk with Will Saletan. To watch him work through his obviously divided mind on the abortion issue. To make him defend statements like this: Roe is 33 years old today. It freed us from ham-fisted criminal laws that pretended to solve the abortion problem. But it didn’t solve…

Got to take issue with John Allen’s characterization of the message of the new encylical. He uses it in this week’s Word, and I heard him use it on NPR last week: Underlying all this is Benedict’s belief that the Christian message, even those aspects of its sexual morality sometimes seen as "hard-line," are ultimately…

Interesting verbs used to described the abortion rights activist’s action. Rarely do you see them used in a MSM report, here: Abortion rights advocates, concerned that the Bay Area movement has become too complacent, showed up en masse to protest the march. And they took a different approach. Although they were easily outnumbered by the…

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