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The role of now-Archbishop Levada of SF Maurice Healy, the spokesman for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, said Levada had no comment on the Portland bankruptcy. But in a lengthy deposition given in San Francisco on April 7, Levada denied that his predecessor, the late Portland Archbishop Cornelius Power, had given him any warnings about…

One of the many areas of knowledge that intrigues me on an admittedly casual level is language acquisition. I sometimes think I should have chucked the whole religion thing long ago and gone back to grad school in child development. Although as distractable as I am, I’m also sure that would have lasted five minutes.…

A St. Louis Press-Dispatch article comparing Archbishop Burke’s stance with that of Archibishop Rummel of New Orleans back in the 1960’s In March of 1962, Rummel announced a plan to integrate all Catholic schools in New Orleans the following school year, but he again met with strong resistance from segregationist Catholics. Judge Leander Perez, president…

A NYTimes story on the priest shortage in Ireland Only 8 Roman Catholic clerical students are expected to be ordained in 2004 in all of Ireland, compared with 193 ordinations in 1990. The Diocese of Dublin, the largest in the country, has planned no ordinations for next year, and the Diocese of Limerick, a hardscrabble…

Charlotte takes on Robert Reich in the LA Times In a column titled “Bush’s God” in this month’s American Prospect magazine, Robert Reich, secretary of Labor during the Clinton administration, declares that religion is a graver threat to America than terrorism. Reich predicts that the great battle of the 21st century won’t be between terrorists…

FW Diocese reprimands Fr. Hawkins.

For De-Coding from the Diocese of Brooklyn newspaper

Peter Steinfels today in the NYTimes There may be a bloc of religiously traditional voters – many Catholics and at least some evangelicals – who find the Bush foreign policy and especially the war in Iraq morally unsettling but also look askance at the Democrats on abortion. Perhaps some surrogate might quietly remind them that…

Michael’s new book is being prepared for publication, and you can even pre-order now.

Missed Jeopardy last night – we went to a baseball game. And now it’s time for the zoo. So – later. If there are any good stories out there you’d like us to read, post the links here. Or any brilliant commentary on your own blog, feel free.
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