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At the Spectator, Shawn Macomber weighs in The National Abortion Federation, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and Planned Parenthood, along with a few abortion doctors, are currently waging legal battles in three states to get the law struck down. After watching the last two weeks of the New York case, it looks like their bloodlust…

On the DMN Blog. Rod gets called Torquemada. He can add that to the list. His primary debate opponent on the blog says: Inquisitors separate the good enough Catholics from the not-so-good enough Catholics. I think that’s what you did to Mr. Kerry. You called him “ignorant” and a “Catholic in name only.” Frankly, I…

Father Arko pleads guilty, gets his suspended sentence An unrepentant Rev. Richard Arko pleaded guilty Tuesday to growing marijuana in a closet in his rectory, saying he hoped that someday it would not be a crime. “I strongly believe in the benefits of marijuana and its use for medical purposes,” he said when asked by…

I’ll be on Kresta in the Afternoon in a couple of hours – 5:30 Eastern. See ya there! Update: Scratch that. They’re having a wildly successful open line session on movies, and they don’t want to cut it off. We’ll try it again next Tuesday at 5 Eastern, okay?

Reported here The homily offered one of the first major illustrations of how O’Malley views American culture, and of how his status as a Franciscan Capuchin friar affects his priorities. He spoke at length about the importance of preaching, which was a major preoccupation of St. Francis. “We have only to look at the New…

On hold for now. The leadership of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has rejected the recommendation by a panel of prominent Roman Catholic lay people that it immediately authorize a second round of independent audits of sex abuse procedures in dioceses across the country.

Fisking Kerry’s Catholic pronouncements And this, which states the point succinctly: Prior to these remarks, the question confronting the bishops was this: “Can a man who runs for president claiming to be Catholic while rejecting key Catholic moral teachings be ignored?” Now they confront a different question: “Can a man who runs for president, claiming…

Minkler’s death ruled a suicide.

Over at The Corner, which I hadn’t read the past couple of days, including a statement from the Bishop of Trenton on NJ’s Governor: “When he refers to himself as a devout Catholic and supports legislation and programs that are contrary to the teaching of the Holy Father and the bishops, he is not a…

..or don’t. There is a burgeoning situation in the Archdiocese of New York in which a pastor of a parish has resigned rather than comply with Cardinal Egan’s order to reinstate school administrators and teachers he maintained were responsible for a)mishandling funds and b)not teaching the Catholic faith (60% of children in the school failed…
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