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New one’s up Caveziel chats with reporters: Caviezel said that he sees Christ’s message as a balance between grace and truth, while in American Catholicism the accent is often on grace alone. “If you have just grace, which we have a lot in the Catholic church in the United States, that means we have a…

From Michael Everything is always a matter of perspective…what does the church exist for? To further agendas or to be the body of Christ on earth? Unfortunately the gate keepers tend to be more concerned with agenda whether liberal or conservative, it is those who wish to be the body of Christ on earth who…

A bit of elaboration on my point below, buried deep in the midst of scores of comments… First, let me point out that I was born in 1960, so that means my direct experience of pre-Vatican II Catholicism is…..nil. I know what I know through what people tell me and what I’ve read. Second caveat:…

Our Joseph with a sculpted representation of Jesus and St.Joseph at the Mary, Queen of the Universe Shrine in Orlando. St. Joseph links here.

Interviewed in The Tablet He is not among those who, as John Paul II becomes the second-longest reigning Pope in history, is calling on him to retire. “To have someone so vulnerable at the head of the Church – I think it is fantastic,” he says. Embracing vulnerability and poverty, he explains, is L’Arche’s way…

Booksigning at our Cathedral Bookstore on April 3 from 9:30-11:30 and then from 1-3. Local reporter coming sometime that week to do a feature, so maybe someone will actually show up. A reporter from a CT paper is interviewing me today at 11am (do not go to the grocery store. Do not go to the…

At Catholic University This being an upstanding religious institution, there were no women in hot pants carrying the round cards. Playing to his audience, and a question about appealing to Catholic voters, Gillespie quickly moved for what McAuliffe called the wedge issues. Catholics “tend to oppose the heinous practice known as partial-birth abortion,” which Bush…

Yesterday, the Pope complimented the work of the Neocatechumenal Way, and someone way down deep in a comment below described this movement as “cultlike.” Tell us more. What is this movement about? Is it really “cultlike?”

13 GOP lawmakers ask Justice Ginsburg to look at a conflict of interest. Thirteen Republican members of Congress on Thursday asked Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to withdraw from all future cases having to do with abortion because of her affiliation with the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund. The House lawmakers said in…

From Fr. Robert Sirico at Opinion Journal Lacking a coherent view of economics or an understanding of how society functions and develops, Liberation Theology ends up with precisely what it decries most of all: centralized power exercised on behalf of the few at the expense of the many. The story has been repeated so many…
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