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The Washington Post's Dana Millbank is just a little too happy over the Catholic bishops' rebuke of Rep. Paul Ryan's economic proposals: In an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody this month, Ryan, the author of the House Republican budget endorsed by Mitt Romney, said his program was crafted “using my Catholic faith” …
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An excellent way for people in the Chattanooga, TN area to fill their Holy Week is with this production:
This, from David Virtue's Online Digest, sure makes it look that way: The saga of TAC Bishop David L. Moyer and his Newman fellowship continues. He announced to his small flock this week that he would not be accepting Msgr. Jeffrey Steenson's offer of laicization in order to enter the Roman Catholic Church. Instead, he …
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It is fashionable (especially in Anglican/Episcopal circles where it is so common these days) to refer to conversion to Roman Catholicism as "swimming the Tiber." Although Hillaire Belloc never actually had to convert (although a recovery was in order,) his The Path to Rome (which he actually walked, via the Alps) is probably a better …
Krugman's the one who's scratching his head here: Many readers of The Times were, therefore, surprised to learn, from an excellent article published last weekend, that the regions of America most hooked on Mr. Santorum’s narcotic — the regions in which government programs account for the largest share of personal income — are precisely the …
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As we approach Mardi Gras and the beginning of Lent next week, I thought I'd post these photos of the New Orleans Mardi Gras from around 1950. That date is approximate; the slides that either my father or mother (or both) took were undated. Nevertheless they show a New Orleans that was, in many ways, …
It's becoming a pattern: The former Anglo-Catholic priest of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Rosemont, Fr. David L. Moyer has been denied his final step into the Roman Catholic Church following 10 years of ecclesiastical wandering that started with The Episcopal Church, migrated through the Diocese of Pittsburgh, Forward in Faith, the Church of …
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Maybe not: Since 1789 the United States government has presented its Christian citizens with no moral problem of critical magnitude. This may mean that the moral integrity of the United States is magnificent; it may also mean that Christian citizens do not recognise a public moral problem when they see it. In the morality of …
That's the question many Catholics are asking as they settle into their "new" Mass: Less than a week into Advent, there are many comments being made about the new English translation of the Mass. Many negative comments center around the new language in the Confiteor: "I confess ... that I have greatly sinned ... through …
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Dan Tomberlin's post on the "old time religion" deals with a subject that conveys one thing to one group of people and one thing to another. The whole business of "religion" has gotten a great deal of press thanks to Jefferson Bethke's video and this relates to that in an indirect way, but this is …
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