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What you’ve been waiting for…another schedule for the Holy Whapping Television Network: 9:00 PM. Trading Chancels – The late Martin Travers guest-hosts this week’s episode, where we watch the new cathedral in Oakland get turned into a perfect 1/6th scale replica of St. Peter’s Basilica. Meanwhile, something goes horribly awry with the opposing team’s attempt…

,,,folks are interested in Burke v. Crow. Four emails already! I’m on it! The story: Rock singer Sheryl Crow was coming home to Missouri this weekend to sing her polished, roots-rock songs at the Fox Theater to help raise money for children with cancer. But St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke was not interested in Crow’s…

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For the most part, I am trying to stay out of the ’08 election until, you know…’08, if possible. But I thought Charlotte Allen’s Weekly Standard article on McCain and the National Right to Life Committee was well-done and worth a read. The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) regards McCain-Feingold as a major hindrance…

Big discussion going on at Pontifications about what Fr. Richard McBrien did or didn’t say about Limbo. Michael Liccione has more on the Limbo issue in general.

The thread down below will be closed and you may comment, if you wish, on this thorough post by Matthew Fish SLU avoids violating the Federal Establishment Clause (which, apropos of Lemon v. Kurtzman means ‘excessive entanglement’ between religion and state) since it is not “an institution in which religion is so pervasive that a…

…on the majority’s religious identity: Now, with an actual opinion on abortion from the new court in hand, the debate has moved from the theoretical to the concrete. Some legal scholars say the Catholicism of the five justices, in and of itself, means less than their conservatism. Yes, the Church hierarchy denounces legalized abortion, but…

As I’ve mentoined before, a very worthy cause and a good place to inform yourself of the situation of the Church around the world. Current news items include an account of the current situation in Angola by an Archbishop who emphasizes the important role of lay catechists there, the desperate attempt to keep Catholic schools…

The place to keep up is at the Northland Catholic blog, with contributors from and links to many MN Catholic blogs.

….and I think that Thomas has his PPOD for sure: Origen was the topic today, as Benedict continues his catechesis on early Christian figures: The “orated reading” of the Bible,  the catechesis and coherence in “moral” behaviour which mark the life and works of the third century Origen, “one of the greatest fathers of the…
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