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A week ago tonight, at just about this time, we were returning to our room at the Marriott Marquis in downtown Atlanta after an exciting three hours at Turner Field watching…rain.

A couple of notes: Picked up God’s Secretaries at the Harper booth at CBA (yes, yes, I’ll talk about that in a bit). Read it surrounded by the lovely red dirt landscape of south Georgia with the well-memorized landmarks of Tifton, Cordele and Valdosta whizzing by. (And my, don’t they enjoy the Asian massages in…

Could it be Ohio Catholics? Brendan Cull, a spokesman for the Kerry campaign in Ohio, recently countered that Mr. Kerry is a man of deep faith, and that he doesn’t tell the church how to do its business, and its leadership shouldn’t tell him what to do. But now there is evidence Catholics aren’t willing…

Make their way…. …to all sorts of places.. ….and holy ground. More added as the day wears on, because I know you can’t wait for my shot of Jenkins and LaHaye.

Garry Wills in the NYTimes (forgive me if this has already been beaten to death in Blogdom, but I just got back, so give me a break.) All I am saying is that the bishops have no special mandate from their office to supplant the individual conscience with some divine imperative. For them to say…

Joseph Califano on squaring church and state. The Second Vatican Council encourages Catholics to rely more on individual conscience. But not until I became secretary of HEW did I begin to appreciate the significance — and limitations — of my personal convictions in making public decisions in a pluralistic democracy. I had been immersed in…

Reporting on the Kerry/Communion issue from an Italian source Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, was clear with Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, archbishop of Washington and the head of the “domestic policy” commission of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ conference. He was more than clear, he set it down…

Filing suit against the Vatican Bank re the Frankel case The scam that threw these unlikely antagonists together began in 1998 when Frankel formed a bogus Catholic charity, the St. Francis of Assisi Foundation, with $55 million. The Vatican got $5 million of the seed money, according to court documents. Colagiovanni agreed to oversee St.…

Canon lawyer files heresy suit against Kerry Mr. Balestrieri said he filed the heresy charge — plus an additional complaint charging “harm” to himself as a result of Mr. Kerry’s pronouncements on abortion and related issues — because canon law entitles Catholics to “possession of the faith unharmed.” “By spreading heresy, he is endangering not…

…a strange, confusing place where men with large, sometimes smooth foreheads bellow into microphones… Kerry says he believes life begins at conception But even as he tried to avoid making news Sunday, Kerry broke new ground in an interview that ran in the Dubuque, Iowa, daily, the Telegraph Herald. A Catholic who supports abortion rights…
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