Patrick Brennan at Mirror of Justice comments: The website of the USCCB doesn’t yet report what the media are celebrating.  (The aforementioned website does already include news of the Conference’s denunciation of U.S. immigration policy and of the Conference’s approval of the revised translation of the liturgy).  The Cardinal and his collaborators have decided, after…

In case you’re wondering, I’m trying to put together a post on last week’s bishops’ meeting. I’m waiting a bit to see if any of the Catholic news services are going to put up any substantive news stories. Joe Feuerherd had a piece up last Friday on NCR(eporter)…but there’s not much more out there yet.…

Outsiders are interested in Episcopal doings in Columbus and elsewhere and at other times, for various reasons, some more hostile and schandenfreude-ish than others. I’m interested for a number of reasons. My M.A. thesis, as it happens, was on the role of women in 19th-century American Protestantism, more specificially, the ways in which proponents of…

Abortion, adoption services to share space in Indianapolis: Planned Parenthood of Indiana closed its Eastside clinic near 21st Street and Ritter Avenue on Saturday, relocating to 86th Street and Georgetown Road on the Northwestside in a building previously used for unrelated medical purposes. Beginning in July, a counselor from Independent Adoption Centers, which arranges open…

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