A piece by Joanna Jepson, the British curate who has successfuly moved a court to review its decision not to prosecute a doctor who aborted a child with a cleft palate There is a tragic paradox here: that sometimes we seem to be most threatened by those who are most vulnerable. Herod, for all his…

Miracle approved for Charles I of Austria-Hungary Charles’ miracle reportedly came when a cloistered nun in Brazil prayed for his beatification in the 1970s and was cured of a deadly disease, the emperor’s grandson George Hapsburg told the Hungarian Catholic monthly publication Uj Ember last year. The Vatican would not confirm that or discuss details…

An odd, moving little piece in the NYTimes about the archivist for Princeton’s class of ’33 Now, still remarkably hale at 91, though his snow-white hair is feather-fine and his skin nearly translucent, with few responsibilities other than helping care for his wife, Ann, who broke her hip in May, Dr. Billings said that keeping…

Priests fault Egan for his treatment of accused clerics In a rare challenge, 74 priests of the Archdiocese of New York indirectly assailed Cardinal Edward M. Egan for failing to support their brother priests accused of sexual abuse, and called for a face-to-face meeting. “We need to tell you again what you already know; the…

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