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This time, in the NYTimes, on the topic du jour In the months to come, Democrats are likely to advance a number of reasons that they can support abortion rights and be good Catholics. In 1984, Mario Cuomo, then governor of New York, mounted the most nuanced apologia in his now famous speech at Notre…

Who knows. A couple of positive cultural reflections on Catholic figures… The film Stateside, here reviewed by James Bowman and the book, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul by satirist Tony Hendra, discussed in the WSJ today. Mr. Hendra himself has been getting sharp, humorous points across for decades–as an original editor at…

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Frederica mathewes-Green on torture in Romanian prisons While most of the world is reeling at the ugliness perpetrated by American soldiers at Abu Ghraib, I have had the feeling I have seen it all before. Rather, I have heard it – from a white-haired Romanian priest who suffered in the dread Pitesti prison outside Bucharest.…

From First Things, Kenneth Woodward has a great overview of the controversy over Gibson’s film.

Maybe not. From the Campaign Journal at the New Republic. I was at a conference on religion and politics sponsored by the Ethics and Public Policy Center for the last couple of days. One of the best presentations was by John Green, a political scientist at the University of Akron. He released preliminary results of…

The ASL sign for abortion (Go the link and click on the term on the right rail) Need we say more? Via After Abortion and Catholic Ragemonkey

A look at two writers, born the same year The common legacy of Greene and Singer is an art that art was driven not by action, which is Hollywood’s ideal, but by an idea of human suffering and transcendence in morally ambiguous circumstances. Few writers today deal in such shades of grey. The overuse of…

An editorial at Christianity Today Some bishops don’t want to use Communion as a threat when dealing with prochoice Catholic politicians. But it is certainly appropriate. Communion is the moment in church life at which we most deeply realize our connectedness, both to Jesus and to all his followers. Our age idolizes personal autonomy. Both…

in Rome — Pope John Paul II on Thursday gave Cardinal Bernard F. Law an official position in Rome, naming the former Boston archbishop who resigned in the sex abuse scandal as head of a basilica. Law will have the title archpriest of St. Mary Major Basilica, a largely ceremonial post often given to retired…
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