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Health Care. What does “Catholic Social Teaching” and Catholic teaching in general say about health care and the responsibility of a society to provide it? And how does this relate to: 1) the present reality in the US and 2) the major party candidate’s proposals? Later: Back. Health care is a complex issue, natch, but…

I’m fully aware of the limitations and possible abuse with polls like this. It might end up accurately reflecting the views of this blogs’ readership or we could get a whole lot of influx from another site that will skew the results. Such is the risk. I make no claims. I’m just curious and WordPress…

…speaking of Red Cardigan, she’s got a wonderful post up today about a 102-year old, never married, childless man who died and asked that any remembrances be left to Human Life International. Wonder why? Go read. (By the way – if you want other short links from me, check out the delicious feed on the…

Here’s my first question for you guys to discuss. Let me try to unpack the probably poorly-articulated question. I don’t mean, “Is it too unrealistically oriented toward a greater good that can never be achieved?”  No. I mean – is Catholic politico-talk, particularly in the present moment, as most of us are engaging in it,…

Here goes. I want to start politico-blogging, but I’m going to be all schoolmarmish and lay down some requests about commenting. Why the requests? (‘Cause you really want to say “rules” but that would be too much. Admit it. Okay, admitted.) Because I’ve being faithfully reading a lot of the Catholic-based political commentary that’s out…

Cincinnati has a new Coadjutor – Queen City resident and blogger Rich Leonardi has details. The Archdiocese of Cincinnati’s new coadjutor is Dennis Marion Schnurr, bishop since 2001 of Duluth, Minn. As coadjutor, Archbishop Pilarczyk remains the ordinary, but upon his retirement Archbishop-designate Schnurr will automatically succeed him. Here is the announcement in Italian. Bishop…

I need to update that sidebar. I do think a couple of those books have been up there for almost a year. (BTW, we are  considering changing the listing of the FW house and adding, “Excellent theological library included.” For what it’s worth.) Niagara Falls is far more than honeymoons and barrels. It’s been an…

If you or any blogger you read has collected links to all the statements made by US bishops on voting in recent months – please post a comment or email to me. Thanks!

At Wal-Mart, it was the day of Buying A Lot of Stuff. One woman slid a case of red pepper sauce right off the shelf into her cart. As we were driving in, another woman was supervising workers who were stuffing huge plastic bags full of plastic pumpkin-shaped trick-or-treat baskets into the back of her…

For the past six weeks, Fr. Mitch Pacwa gave talks on “St. Paul, Steward of the Mysteries” at the Cathedral of St. Paul here in Birmingham.  They were all (video) recorded, and here’s the link to the diocesan website with all the sessions.
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