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Next week’s visit to Turkey will be interesting enough, but this week holds its own newsworthy items. Tomorrow, the pope will visit the Academy of St. Cecilia in Rome, and will, we hope, make some typically harmonious remarks on music. Then, this week, beginning today, actually, Anglican Archbishop Rowan WIlliams in Rome, through Sunday. The…

…we’ve had a TomKat free zone. But this was irresistible: The priest of the Italian town where Tom Cruise married Katie Holmes on Saturday  rang his church bells louder and for longer during the couple’s ceremony, to voice his displeasure of their un-Christian ceremony. Fiorentini says: "It wasn’t a wedding at all. It was just…

…to the heterosexuals. A WaPo article about the plummeting marriage rate in France The increase in out-of-wedlock birthrates is even more dramatic: Last year, 59 percent of all first-born French children were born to unwed parents, most by choice, not chance. The numbers were not driven by single mothers, teenage mothers or poor mothers, but…

A CNS article on the bishops’ document on pastoral care of homosexuals: Father Schexnayder’s National Association of Catholic Diocesan Lesbian and Gay Ministries includes leaders in such ministry in 55 U.S. Catholic dioceses and 130 parishes. In an e-mail to CNS he said the bishops’ guidelines "do not in fact reflect the real lives of…
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