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From NCR’s Washington Notebook Next, did Burke, a canon lawyer, act properly under church law? Hard to tell. He employed Canon 915, which allows a bishop, in the name of quashing scandal and instructing the faithful, to deny communion to someone he determines is guilty of “manifest grave sin.” But Canon 915, because it represents…

From both ends of the spectrum: Cut it out and grow up. Peggy Noonan Our culture has been on a boil for years. Then it cooled a bit. The other night at the Super Bowl they put the flame higher and the water began to boil. The frog–that would be us–is still alive. And may,…

Arko indicted for that whole marijuana issue. A story with details of the affadavit. Hmmm. “Dude, he’s been doing this for years,” Powell told detectives before declining to say anything else.

Good man! (pdf file, be warned)

From Anne Applebaum Later — in 10 years, or in 60 — it will surely turn out that quite a lot was known in 2004 about the camps of North Korea. It will turn out that information collected by various human rights groups, South Korean churches, oddball journalists and spies added up to a damning…

Described at CT’s Weblog Nearly three dozen Greek Orthodox worshipers, including several prominent figures, are suing the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America and Archbishop Demetrios for what they say are violations of its 1978 governing charter. The suing parishioners are backed by the Orthodox Christian Laity, a group founded “to restore and strengthen the role…

Words to ponder from Luke Timothy Johnson, whom I heard this morning on a syndicated public radio program called Speaking of Faith. The subject was The Da Vinci Code, and the host interviewed Johnson (and later another, feminist scholar whom I did not hear. Had to work) on the formation of the canon, which is…

An article on the work of Dominican sisters in Iraq.

This guy Rutten really doesn’t like this whole Passion thing at all. As a popular scriptural verse declares, “by their fruits shall you know them.” But there’s also something to be learned from the configuration of the bough that bears the fruit. Take, for example, the straightforward way in which those concerned with Mel Gibson’s…
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