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Archdiocese tells pastor at heart of lawsuit to resign The Archdiocese of New York ordered a prominent monsignor to resign as pastor of an Upper East Side parish in Manhattan after it discovered evidence that he may have misappropriated hundreds of thousands of dollars in parish funds, a spokesman said yesterday. The archdiocese began investigating…

A good column from the Denver Post After pressure from pro-choice activists, who vehemently disagree with the assertion that life begins at conception, Stephanie Cutter, a Kerry spokeswoman, reiterated her candidate’s convictions. Kerry, she says, has “always said he doesn’t believe in abortion, but these are his convictions that he can’t enforce on others. He’s…

A reader alerts me to that bishop’s statement on abortion-rights-supporting politicians and the Eucharist. Anyone who seriously disagrees with the teachings of the church has chosen for their own personal reasons not to be in communion with the church. The real question, it seems to me, is “should a person who is not in communion…

Michael tells us about the bishop of St. Augustine’s statement on politicians, abortion and the Eucharist.

…is the title of John Allen’s newest book, linked over there on the right. In the introduction, Allen lays out his intentions: At the very least, I hope this book will help English-speaking Catholics see that in many cases the values Rome is striving to protect are dear to them too, even if they differ…

I realized that I had not yet blogged about our brief side trip to Andalusia, the home of Flannery O’Connor in Milledgeville, Georgia (which is about 25 miles east of Macon). This isn’t the first time I’d been there. Michael and I visited – probably about ten years ago – on a very hot, probably…

A brief report from an independent Tuscon paper on a June deposition by retired Tuscon bishop Moreno Moreno is in failing health, preparing to meet his maker. Perhaps that explains why Moreno is now openly admitting his complicity in the Tucson sex-abuse scandal. In an extraordinary June 2 deposition taken by Costa Mesa, Calif.-based attorney…

Fr. Rob on many things, including the FMA and, from this past weekend, an excellent pro-life homily on “Who Is My Neighbor?”

Three very interesting saints or blesseds are remembered today on the calendar. There’s Kateri Tekakwitha, whose story we all know. (We visited her tomb, which is across the river from Montreal in a depressed little village mostly of “First Nations” people (what they call Native Americans up there). Then there’s Francis Solano, (or Solanus) who…

A very interesting e-mail from the medical director of Maternal Life International: Let us give the Georgetown researchers the benefit of the doubt and trust they are working to create a more user friendly method of NFP. However, there are those of us who teach NFP whom have serious reservations about the approach, both methodologically…
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