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Issue rebuke. Leave the rest up to the ordinaries Despite the “polarizing” nature of election-year politics, the bishops wrote, “Respect for the holy eucharist, in particular, demands that it be received worthily and that it be seen as the source for our common mission in the world.” The bishops’ statement also calls for withholding signs…

A A NYTimes article on prenatal testing and the burden of the consequent choices. But some couples who terminate pregnancies for fetal health conditions say no one has a right to judge them. A child psychologist in Atlanta who terminated a Down syndrome fetus earlier this year said she was outraged by people who told…

I think the mystery that would puzzle most readers of stories like those the Dallas News is publishing is…why? What is the root of the reluctance (to put it mildly) to remove even even convicted abusers from some sort of active priestly ministry or even in the priesthood at all? No one in the hierarchy…

The Dallas Morning News begins its series – to continue over the course of a year – investigating the global protection of abusing priests. An overview. And the first of the stories, centering on an Australian Salesian. Cardinal Rodriguez of Costa Rica,who is a Salesian, is quoted in the story. “For me it would be…

…is up. John Allen reports on much of interest, including conservative critiques of the Curia, particularly in regard to the UN: As this critical reflection deepens in conservative circles, one issue where I suspect it will increasingly focus is the Vatican’s attitude towards the United Nations. Although the Holy See has waged battles against elements…

From the UK Tablet This is a tragedy foretold: the UN and aid agencies have been warning for months about what was going to happen in Darfur. Many are pointing to the frightening similarities with the great Sudanese famine of 1984-85 in which 250,000 lives were lost, a tragedy eclipsed at the time in the…

Don’t say anything about it, advises Fr. Drinan.

Catholic World News reports that the Dallas Morning News is poised to report the results of an investigation…. The sexual abuse scandal that has rocked the Church in the US over the past two years is not be limited to the US or any international borders, according to a report to be published by the…

in Russia. Who’s next? “Once you get a decision like this, it’s open season,” John Burns, the Canadian lawyer who represented the group at a Moscow appellate court, told The New York Times. He told the Associated Press, “Religious freedom has just turned back to where it was in Soviet times.” Forum 18, a Norway-based…

When does personhood begin? A CT overview, mostly of evangelical positions.
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