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Raised the suspicion of some parishioners The pastor of St. Anthony’s in downtown Joliet since 1993, LaPore was ordained in 1976 and also had served as associate pastor of St. Pius X in Lombard. He was placed on administrative leave from the Joliet diocese on Thursday, the day after church officials found out about the…

Maggie Gallagher knows Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it’s the most exquisite love of all. At 43, I have a lot to be grateful for: a husband, gratifying work, two fine boys (21 and 9 years old) who are, without doubt,…

June 19 in Cincinnati August 6 in Atlanta early October in Superior, Wisconsin Details and perhaps more to follow…

William McGurn reflects on the life and death of a priest Understandably, nonbelievers might find it a romantic idealization of pain and ugliness to extract any beauty from the drawn-out death inflicted on this gentle man–the chemo, the probes, the constant sickness and (perhaps worst of all) the boredom. The only answer is the one…

I’m thinking that what David Morrison has to say about the vile treatment of Iraqi prisoners is pretty intriguing Back to the bad news. I am afraid that this represents the….increasing depravity abroad in this country. The U.S. armed forces in Iraq now has a larger percentage of reservists among its ranks in recent history.…

That Pittsburgh priest excommunicated The Rev. William Hausen knows just what he’ll do when he gets the letter notifying him of his formal excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church: Frame it. The Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese announced Thursday that Hausen “has incurred automatic excommunication” by starting a splinter church. The diocese sent Hausen notification of the…

Actor who portrayed the chief scourger in TPOTC to mount a one-man play about it. Mr. D’Ambrosi — burly, bald and blue-eyed — has had enough. “Everyone shut up; it’s my time to speak,” he said in heavily accented English while sitting in a downtown restaurant. “I am a father of two kids. I am…

Tells Barbara Walters that she made the choice to have an abortion on doctors’ advice, but miscarried the night before. Teresa Heinz Kerry told a television interviewer this week that she had planned to have an abortion in the mid-1970’s after discovering that cortisone she took while unaware of her pregnancy could cause birth defects…

To teach lessons about bad writing! Brown’s writing is not just bad; it is staggeringly, clumsily, thoughtlessly, almost ingeniously bad. In some passages scarcely a word or phrase seems to have been carefully selected or compared with alternatives. I slogged through 454 pages of this syntactic swill, and it never gets much better. Why did…

FDA says no to over-the-counter sales – for now. In a letter to Barr, the FDA said it had rejected the over-the-counter proposal because the company did not provide enough evidence that young girls could use the Plan B pills safely without medical supervision. A panel of outside scientists that advises the FDA voted 23-4…
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