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I agree with Fr. Rob on this one. Not our problem, not our business, not the issue for us – dealing with the matter of Kerry’s public life, statements and policies. If some Catholics go after Kerry on the annulment issue, and Kerry really had obtained one, all he will have to do is release…

A reminder that I have De-Coding Da Vinci for sale at our bookstore here. I shipped the first orders out yesterday, and am ready to do more business!

Growing in the decade since the massacres Muslim leaders credit the gains to their ability during the 1994 massacres to shield most Muslims, and many other Rwandans, from certain death. “The Muslims handled themselves well in ’94, and I wanted to be like them,” said Alex Rutiririza, explaining why he converted to Islam last year.…

In a comment below, someone posted a link to the accounts of the Partial-Birth Abortion trials, being monitored by the American Center for Law and Justice. Go here and click on “Jay’s PBA Trial Notebook” in the upper right. You’re especially encouraged to consider the questioning of Judge Casey, of whom one commentor writes: …the…

E.J. Dionne on Leon Wieseltier. Is tolerance a sell-out for the religiously committed?

The Kerry discussion just a bit. I was just about the post something, when cs and Patrick Sweeney started an echo chamber of my thoughts down below. It really is time for John Kerry’s bishop – O’Malley, and perhaps even McCarrick, while we’re at it, to join forces and respond to this guy every time…

Gets combative. Sounds stupid. Mr. Kerry became combative when told that some conservatives were criticizing him for being a Roman Catholic who supported policies, like abortion rights and same-sex unions, that are at odds with Catholic teaching. “Who are they?” he demanded of his questioner. “Name them. Are they the same legislators who vote for…

Probation terms are too demanding Bishop Thomas J. O’Brien wants his travel time deducted from the 1,000 hours of community service he was ordered to serve for a felony hit-and-run conviction. The bishop’s attorneys also say the 40 hours a month O’Brien is required to minister to the sick and dying could be too difficult…

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Get Religion on the Cel Phone at Communion and other matters The Revealer on the religious element in conflict (to put it mildly) in Iraq, South Park’s “The Passion of the Jew,” and a continuing conversation on the influence of St. Blog’s You know, I don’t know if anyone who’s actually a real Catholic blogger…

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