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From the Tablet, the Orthodox Church fighting for its life in Kosovo The mysterious groups of arsonists who targeted almost every remaining Serbian enclave in Kosovo on 17-18 March seemed almost more determined to attack churches than houses. About 3,000 people in all were forced from their homes – perhaps 10 per cent of the…

A Nod and a Shrug ”Something happened over the past decade and, yes, it worries us,” says Bishop Odilo Scherer, secretary general of Brazil’s Catholic Bishops Conference. What happened, according to the Brazilian Census Bureau, was a major decline in the percentage of Catholics in Brazil’s population — which fell from 84 percent in 1991…

Lots of abusive, prank messages left on O’Brien’s hotline Among the voice mails was a vulgarity-laced threat to punch the former leader of the Phoenix Diocese. Another suggested that the best community service O’Brien could perform would be to commit suicide. Of 340 calls, more than 60 were pranks, and many of them were abusive…

…and the issue where you won’t find any flip-flopping Like Bill Clinton, the womanizer who would waffle on everything except “women’s issues,” Kerry is a reliable vote for NARAL. He marched with militant feminists on the streets of New York in the 1970s. During the primaries, Kerry tried to wow NARAL activists by claiming that…

According to the Sun-Times The new stance shuts off centuries of theological debate in the church and will require revision in directives on end-of-life care at more than 565 hospitals in the Catholic Health Association. It could lead to conflict and confusion over the validity of advance directives many people have drawn up saying they…

Robert Louis Wilken says he does There are a few historical blunders, the most egregious being the pronouncement of one “expert” that Jesus was “illiterate.” There is also some silliness–Mr. Jennings sticking a microphone in the face of tourists in St. Peter’s Squarein Rome to ask what they know about St. Paul (answer: not much)–and…

Via The Corner, the US Bishops have issued a statement on The Kass Commission report , found here, taking the Commission to task for even tentatively approving any toying with any human embryos at any stage. Ramesh Ponnuru questions the wisdom In the interests of charity, let’s come up with an argument for the bishops’…

Tomorrow morning, 8:30 am Eastern, me on Morning Air Not With Jeff Cavins, but with Theresa Tomeo!

Conor Dugan responds to Matthew Yglesias on Catholics and politics

From PW’s Newsline: A groundbreaking new book will come out next week that will refute the claims made in another new book that may undermine the tenets of a really old book. “The book is meant as a refutational handbook to all the refutational handbooks on the truths denied by the Da Vinci Code,” said…
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