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From Commonweal, Frans Jozef van Beeck, SJ on denying Communion to pro-abortion politicians In this situation, where do I stand? As a priest-theologian, I do not worship the church. Rather, I suffer with it, as family members do with family. Nor am I a political agent. I rarely indicate my views on current issues. Blam­ing…

From Sidney Callahan: I voted for George W. Bush and I’m heartily sorry now. My support was motivated by prolife convictions, but so is my present dismay. I opted for Bush in 2000 because I thought he’d try to protect embryonic life in and out of the womb, and also support faith-based social initiatives. As…

for the mill in the issue of Commonweal that’s currently online. First, a piece by Orthodox writer John Garvey, who always has interesting things to say: Here we are: back at polytheism. All these gods—mine, yours, hers, his, theirs—are the result of a combination of secularism gone to an extreme, combined with individualism and a…

The Spectator Online runs a piece about a couple of recent non-profit related issues If the New York Times and NPR have their way, Christians may soon long for the days of hungry lions and syphilitic Roman emperors. The Scylla and Charybdis of respectable opinion have all but begged the Internal Revenue Service to open…

in Colombia Throughout Colombia’s 40-year-old conflict, the church has often been the only channel of communication between warring factions. In isolated regions, priests fill a void left by the absence of state authority. “The church is the only institution that all sides respect,” said the Rev. Luis Ritmel, whose parish is in the jungles of…

Rod sometimes mentions his early days on AOL, experiencing the Catholic message boards there, and how contentious the whole scene was. I was around then too, intially thinking, “how great is this! Catholics from around the world conversing…” only to discover what Rod did…it took about a day for any single conversation to degenerate into…

More from the Dallas Morning News The Mexican bishop had trouble on his hands. An attacker had nearly killed one of his priests, whose sexual misconduct was well known to the bishop. And now villagers were telling police about a stream of young male visitors to the priest’s parish residence. The U.S. bishop had a…

Sampling life at Gethsemane

Talk in Cincinnati went well, I think. Except for the poor gentleman who turned green and passed out during the talk preceding mine. They took him away, and the last report I heard was that he would be okay. I was really glad to meet John, a sometime commentor on this blog who hails from…

is here, focusing on a situation in Costa Rica and Honduras Bishop San Casimiro acknowledged that in the mid-1990s, he freed Father Vásquez to work abroad after the priest admitted to him that he had abused a 10-year-old altar boy. “When I found out he had this problem,” the bishop said, “I confronted him, and…
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