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Interviewed by John Allen First, on bishops’ accountability: Some would suggest the missing element in your analysis is the question of accountability for the bishops, which somehow has not been addressed. Do you share that? No. I gave a speech at the University of Dayton [about this] last month. I think to say, lay it…

Springfield bishop dissolves fund giving support to abusive clerics, removes priest critic from presbyteral council McDonnell said he had spoken to donors and they had agreed that the money should be used to provide scholarships for students in Catholic schools. The fund was established last fall by Bishop Thomas Dupre, who abruptly announced his retirement…

Has written a book. Reviewed in the WaPo. For Sanger, the solution lies in the field of evolutionary biology. Like many contemporary thinkers, he seems to have had a bit of a eureka moment in exploring this trendy academic field, which holds that people are motivated, in pretty much everything they do, by the urge…

Between the National Review Board and the bishops The high-profile lay committee investigating the clergy sex abuse scandals was “manipulated” by the bishops, who used the 13-member National Review Board for public relations cover while withholding key information from the panel. That charge was made in a March 30 letter from Anne Burke, the Illinois…

To Charlotte Allen for the nice plug at Inkwell.

from Bishop Wenski of Orlando in today’s Sentinel, although I could have done without the bumper sticker lingo. In fact, when I first saw the headline, I went into a minor rage against what I thought was disrespectful headline-writing. But no – he uses the phrase himself, which is unfortunate, I think, for it undercuts…

Kerry and the bishops to be in Denver at the same time Sen. John Kerry plans to be in Denver next month. So will hundreds of Catholic bishops. The result could be a defining moment in the presidential campaign.

…for participating in the gay marriage debate “We look with dismay at bishops who openly criticize the homosexual community and criticize gay rights,” James E. Post, the organization’s president, told about 150 people at a Voice of the Faithful meeting at St. Eulalia Church in Winchester. In an interview afterward, Post told reporters, “It is…

Here’s something fascinating to a few of us.. Apparently a Major Catholic Publisher of high school religion texts has, in the light of the bishop’s Ad Hoc Committee that declares texts in compliance with the Catechism, or not, decided to just give up. (Link goes to pdf version of texts currently declared in compliance. A…

For several reasons (including the fact that I finally got myself to the midwife and yes, confirmed my condition, as if it needed it), I forgot to blog that our friend Peggy Noonan was scheduled to be on that special Power Players (or whatever) edition of Jeopardy last night. I don’t know how she did…
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