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From the National Post (Canada), Christians will win the culture wars, says columnist Elizabeth Nickson. Is anyone else getting sick of gay marriage? Don’t haul me off to the gulag’s re-education room, and beat me with rubber hoses, for heaven’s sake. But honestly, I’m so over it. I’m tolerant, leave me alone, do what you…

Battling against embryonic stem cell research In the tradition of Gregor Mendel, the Austrian priest who fathered genetics, Pacholczyk, 39, comfortably shelves science and religious faith side by side in his psychic library. By day, Pacholczyk, who has a doctorate in neuroscience from Yale, serves as the parochial vicar at St. Patrick’s Church in Falmouth.…

Today is the day on which recommendations are made public as to which parishes in the Archdiocese of Boston should be closed. Plenty of coverage from the Globe: Here Here Here Here and Here In addition, Dom, who is on the scene and was a part of the meetings in Salem, has been blogging a…

Frank Bruni reflects on the lengthy pontificate of JP2 Scholars and Vatican officials and analysts said in recent interviews that the amount of time John Paul had spent in office had exponentially increased his effect on both the church and the papacy itself. Most obviously, the accumulation of years has given John Paul all the…

Restoring mosaics in NYC Ms. Rosen, 43, is an art restorer who works mostly on paintings, here and in Italy, where she helped restore ceilings at the Vatican. But for the past two months, she has been caring for another kind of patient: a set of rare mosaics depicting the Stations of the Cross in…

Weakland set to preside at a confirmation; protests ensue Nonetheless, Szews said he was surprised about the reaction, saying that St. John’s “has always been what some would call a ‘progressive’ parish.” “I would have thought that it was a parish that would have been much more sympathetic to Archbishop Weakland than perhaps other parishes…

Tale of a diocese, a chapel and a determined community Hours before Mass begins, every seat is taken in the little red-roofed chapel that opens its doors each Sunday in proud defiance of the Catholic Church. Families, many of them Mexican migrant workers, have come to this renegade church for 90 minutes of religious study…

Feds want abortion records; Planned Parenthood says no A federal judge in San Francisco yesterday rejected the Justice Department’s attempt to obtain abortion records from Planned Parenthood Federation of America, a ruling likely to halt demands for as many as 1,000 patient files from clinics around the country, including the Washington area, according to Justice…

A fascinating interview from her native Scotland As soon as she stopped taking the pills she began to recover, and as soon as she recovered she converted to Catholicism: a major step for a daughter of Presbyterian Edinburgh. “I find Presbyterianism a bit too censorious. It has great qualities, mostly on the side of truthfulness…

Dattilo died overnight at Holy Spirit Hospital in Camp Hill, where he had been hospitalized since Feb. 7, the Rev. T. Ronald Haney said. “He had heart problems, respiratory problems, kidney failure and diabetes,” Haney said.
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