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Kerry to meet with McCarrick today. Kerry also is meeting Thursday with Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the archbishop of Washington, D.C., and chairman of a task force studying the church’s stance toward politicians who don’t adhere to church teachings. Kerry, a Roman Catholic, has been criticized because his pro-choice views on abortion conflict with the church.

Says this Newsday columnist The Catholic hierarchy lost most, if not all, of its credibility and clout among Catholics and non-Catholics alike when it refused to admit its central role in the priest sex-abuse scandal. And the anger and distrust are still so profound among many Catholics that they are more likely to support any…

Twice! Thank you very much. At least in this niche market. See Michael’s blog for the list! Books. For Sale. By the way, if you’re bored and if you have a moment, go to the Amazon page for the book and fill in the form at the bottom, complaining bitterly that they don’t have it…

Stephen Moore wonders in NRO Rick Santorum is obligated to publicly back the incumbent Specter. Santorum believes, probably rightly, that he would not be senator today without Specter’s help. In a city where loyalty is notoriously a scarce commodity, Santorum can be commended for not his public pledges of support. But Santorum is actively working…

PA priest says he’ll start his own church A recovering alcoholic, Hausen has been on administrative leave since October. Church officials won’t explain the move, but Hausen believes it was based partly on his struggles with alcohol and partly on his opposition to Catholic dogma calling for priests to remain celibate and prohibiting the ordination…

I meant to blog, but forgot, the news last week that the remains of Antoine Saint-Exupery’s crashed aircraft, found in 2000, had been positively identified. Here’s a WSJ Opinion Journal piece on Saint-Exupery, confirming my own puzzled stance on him as a writer. Instead, they relish Saint-Exupéry’s murky observations, excerpted in “A Guide For Grown-ups:…

All the links at CT’s weblog these days.

Hill Democrats are getting one together House Democrats are preparing a “Catholic Voting Scorecard” in an effort to show that Catholic Democratic lawmakers have adhered more closely to the position of the U.S. Catholic hierarchy on key issues than their Catholic Republican counterparts. Democratic sources say Reps. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) and Nicholas Lampson (D-Texas), both…

From Cleveland, a “conservative” parish advertises itself as such….displeases many. When Matt Minarik and his wife Sarah first walked into St. Stephen eight years ago, they found, to their delight, unpadded wooden kneelers on which to pray. To their left was a stained glass window so finely crafted, they could see the hairs on a…

Katie asks Joseph if he knows where the baby is? Joseph indicates that he does not. Katie pats my abdomen. “Right in there!” Joseph furrows his brow and brings his face up to mine. “Open your mouth!” he demands, ready to take a look.
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