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Sheen takes his name off the list Actor Martin Sheen has backed out of being listed as an endorser for the pro-abortion march sponsored by leading abortion advocacy groups. Whether the listing of him as a sponsor was accidental or if Sheen didn’t know the march’s purpose is to support abortion is still a question.…

Indianapolis Archbishop responds to liturgical document In a statement issued Friday, Indianapolis Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein said he was asking priests, liturgy committees and the Archdiocese’s Office of Worship to study the instruction for a few months and make any necessary changes to worship. “I would be astonished to find that some of the abuses…

I’m #94 on Barnes and Noble at this moment. Astonishing. But perhaps not, since the Amazon situation is so unbelievably messed up. (If anyone who read the book and liked it wants to review it…please do! Since Amazon somehow can’t get information about the book up on the site, for whatever reason, I have to…

Priest arrested for decades-old murder. Very very strange, with really no indication but for some hints on “forensic evidence” as to how it came to this.

The post with by far the most comments over the past day is the Play Dough post. Hm. Glad I could come up with something that speaks to so many of us.

From Disputations (scroll down) The problem: How do we get men to stop thinking of church as something for women? My suggestion: Preach the Gospel. I mean, you can dress Christianity up as manly man’s work like saving the womenfolk from the world, the flesh, and the devil, plus a monthly beer and bowling night,…

Says no. The cardinal spoke amid a debate in the United States over whether Democrat John Kerry should be denied communion, which Catholics believe is the body of Christ, because he supports abortion rights. At a news conference presenting a Vatican document restating standing rules about the celebration of Mass, Cardinal Francis Arnize was reminded…

Agrees with her! Oh, I guess not. While it is understandable that John F. Kerry makes some church leaders uncomfortable, the source of that discomfort is political, not theological [“For Catholic Politicians, a Hard Line,” Outlook, April 11]. The bishops and the Vatican have limited legitimate canon law options for dealing with Catholics who disagree…

Go get it. At Get Religion, posts on the Randall Terry-and-his-gay-son contretemps, and a little bit about Ave Maria U.

That accompanied the release of the liturgy document: Today at a press conference in the Holy See Press Office, Cardinal Francis Arinze and Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino, respectively prefect and secretary of the congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of Sacraments, presented the congregation’s document on the liturgy entitled “Redemptionis Sacramentum.” Also present was Archbishop…
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