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That the Archdiocese of Boston announces parish closings. Go to Dom’s place for links and discussion. He’s got it all.

Head of Christian Coalition in Alabama converts to Catholicism He acknowledges that the reaction by his Protestant constituents may be mixed. “We didn’t make this change to win friends and influence people and do it from a popularity standpoint, because we knew that in the state of Alabama, this is probably not a popular position…

New website, including a blog, from Robert Duncan, freelance writer, sometime commenter here and other places. Start with this interesting interview with John Allen and explore. R.D.: In your opinion is the Vatican out-of-touch and outdated, or is it just as relevant for today´s generation as it was for our parents and grandparents? J.A.: If…

To McGreevey In an interview, Archbishop Myers said Mr. McGreevey was not the target of statements he had made in a pastoral letter saying that Catholic officeholders who did not share the Vatican’s opposition to abortion should not seek communion. He said he had apologized to the governor for any misperception by the public.

Charlotte Allen puts into words thoughts that have been swirling around in my head for months. And she does it much more knowledgeably, too. So that’s a good thing. Call it Christianity Lite. It’s the assertion — no, the insistence — that you can be a Christian in good standing though you reject all or…

Continued in the extended post, so we won’t bore the rest of you…

At Mark Shea’s blog, a letter from a woman who is pregnant with an ancephalic child The value of Thomas Walter, Benedict and Charlotte cannot be measured by the length of their lives – we don’t apply this yardstick to adults, so why should we to babies? A baby is not a possession, an accessory…

Wisconsin’s doing it …his printed rhetoric is being collected at only one site in North America: the Historical Society’s headquarters building in Madison, according to James Danky, the society’s newspaper and periodicals librarian. Danky began seeking Hutton’s newsletters after Danky’s wife saw a reference to them in The New Yorker. He sent a letter to…

Brother priests who were removed by his successor A former Catholic bishop has sent letters around the Panhandle diocese soliciting funds for three priests who were removed two years ago over sexual abuse allegations. Leroy Matthiesen, the outspoken retired bishop of Amarillo who gained national acclaim in the early 1980s for his stance against nuclear…

Take a look at Sargent Shriver, suggests this writer. The social conservatives’ concern was warranted. On Jan. 22, 1973, the Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade that states could not restrict the right of a woman to abort a fetus in the first trimester of pregnancy. To Catholics who believed that the soul is…
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