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So, I’m talking to my oldest son on the telephone: Me: (tentatively) Well….how are you feeling? Him: Okay, I guess. Me: Hmm. Him: This is worse than getting dumped. Me: You feel like you were let down? Him: YES! It’s like I was betrayed or something. It’s BAD! I’m going to write a letter. Me:…

…for three months. That’s what the pastor involved in the Rockford Diocese incident I described here is doing Time for a sabbatical The embattled pastor at a suburban Catholic church announced he is taking a three-month sabbatical leave to Australia. Father Joseph Jarmaluck is the pastor at St. Peter’s Church in Geneva, where he is…

Attacks against churches in Sri Lanka increasing And fromt he same news source: Anglican synod to debate papal primacy next month

(And we are, below), An Arizone Catholic school teacher is in trouble for her role in “My Big Fat Fiancee” on Fox.

This is from a German site . I don’t know its ideological leanings, but it runs an article critiquing the possible beatification of Charles I. Helmut Rumpler, a history professor who heads the Habsburg commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences told The Guardian, “He was a dilettante, far too weak for the challenges facing…

At the Fort Wayne International (yes) Airport today, beheld a bevy of what was either very conservative Mennonites or liberal Amish – there’s a twilight area there in which it can really be hard to tell – going on a trip. Looked like three families, two younger, one old couple. They went through security (the…

Dziwisz says he didn’t say it. Pope John Paul II never said “It is as it was” after watching Mel Gibson’s film on the passion of Jesus, said the pope’s longtime personal secretary, Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz. “The Holy Father told no one his opinion of this film,” the archbishop told Catholic News Service Jan. 18.

Me on the Da Vinci Code. Because, you know, you’ve never read anything from me on this before.

From Tech Central Station Islam needs no Pope. The confusion of political power with divine appointment has sparked terrible policies throughout history. Massacres and murders have too often been perpetrated in the name of all major world religions, when this mistake has been made. Furthermore, falsehood has been allowed to go unchecked. ….The Reformation saw…

Michael has reflections, based in part on our visit to Atlanta this past summer and a past visit to the Lorraine Motel in Memphis.

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