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And who’s displeased with Benedict?
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awelborn
This just came across the email transom. A press release from the corporate and foundation -funded Catholics for Free Choice: April 19 marks the one-year anniversary of Joseph Ratzinger’s papacy. Pope Benedict XVI has not emerged as a high profile public personality. Efforts to shape the secular world to fit the Vatican’s ideas have been…
Back to Winter
By
awelborn
But it’s spring! Sorry, must be done. I declared I would respond to the Michael Sean Winters piece on "Benedict the Ecumenical" in The New Republic, so let’s have a go at it. As I do so, I’m going to borrow from astute comments below. So consider yourself credited! The piece seems rooted in a…
Food for thought
By
awelborn
From Matthew Lickona’s blog: Had occasion to talk to someone who worked at a megachurch the other day. They were going to be putting on a Good Friday service, which I found interesting. The person acknowledged that part of the reason was that about 60 percent of the congregation came from a Catholic background.
Catholics and immigration
By
awelborn
Much has been made on the right of the Church’s involvement in the immigration debate, with cretins like Michael Savage leading the charge. Here’s the thing, though. (Well, perhaps not the thing, but a thing.) As I was driving to South Bend yesterday, I listened to a bit of Al Kresta’s show.It was sort of…
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