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Brouhaha An influential group of liberal-minded Catholic reformers is debating a response to Bishop Anthony Pilla, who recently banned the organization from meeting on Diocese of Cleveland property. Future Church, which claims more than 800 members locally, advocates allowing priests to marry and women to be ordained as the best ways to alleviate clergy shortages.…

Neumayr on the spot. Sunday’s “March for Women’s Lives” made maximum usage of euphemism, invoking “choice” whenever marchers meant killing. They, for example, used placards to convey the lament that Barbara Bush hadn’t killed her son in the womb. “If Only Barbara Bush Had Choice,” read one sign. “Barbara Chose Poorly,” read another. Marchers were…

That’s the implicit question in this NYTimes piece on the current thrust of pro-life political activity Some say the anti-abortion movement looks so successful because it has essentially ceded defeat on the broader goal of ending legal abortion. When the Supreme Court ultimately ruled in 1992, it upheld the Roe decision, albeit narrowly and allowing…

Remember the Polish parish and Archbishop Burke? Here’s the latest An independent Polish parish at odds with St. Louis’ archbishop over its control protectively agreed Sunday to release its assets to a Roman Catholic charitable group – not the archdiocese – if the parish or its corporation ever dissolves. Though the St. Stanislaus Kosta church’s…

Newsday runs a fair portrayal of pro-life folks at the march Maureen Russell, a clinical social worker from Floral Park, said family obligations kept her from attending the rally, but she counsels women who regret having abortions. “So many women bought the argument that if they had an abortion, their problems would be solved,” she…

So says the WaPo “Both Kerry and [President] Bush support the war in Iraq and [Pope John Paul II] does not. The pope has made that very, very clear. But does it get any attention? No,” said Raymond L. Flynn, head of the San Francisco-based group Your Catholic Voice and a former U.S. ambassador to…

Okay, definitely strange. The woman whose allegations led to the reopening of the case testified before a church review board in June and wrote a detailed statement alleging years of abuse by priests during her childhood, The Blade of Toledo reported. The woman, now in her 40s, alleged that the clerics killed an infant and…

Well, now you have your chance to ask the Cardinal all those nagging questions – Tomorrow, on Catholic Answers Live.

Ellen Goodman opines Conor Dugan responds

My son is writing a paper on Calvin’s Geneva. He’s submitting to me every few pages for double-checking. He says to me, “Mom, I think this paper just might be better than the Colts’ draft.” Which, I gather, isn’t saying too much.
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