When the president of the US bishops’ conference completes his term, the vice-president is elected to succeed him. That’s how the system always worked, until last year. But when they gathered in November, the American […]
In English-speaking countries, the First Sunday of Advent was traditionally known as “stir-up Sunday”—not only because housewives were expected to “stir up” the plum pudding that would be served with Christmas dinner, but also because […]
Catholic shills for the Democratic Party enjoyed some success during the past election year in publicizing the claim that abortions declined in the Clinton years because increased disbursements to social services allowed pregnant women to […]
So here’s the next move in the culture wars, an editorial cloud no bigger than a man’s suspiciously well-groomed hand. The Los Angeles Times has an editorial deploring the Holy See’s new “Guidelines for the […]
Ho hum. Yet another transgressive artist has signaled his creativity by joining the queue of aesthetes employing and cashing in on a 12-yearold boy’s categories of impiety: ROME–An Italian museum on Thursday defied Pope Benedict […]
An article in Georgetown University’s newspaper The Hoya welcomes the new director of the school’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Questioning (LGBTQ) Resource Center and does some end-zone celebration for our benefit. Georgetown, you may remember, […]
Commonweal’s editor Paul Baumann has an article in that magazine’s June 6 issue discussing the Catholic experts tapped by the media to comment on Pope Benedict’s recent visit to the US. Interesting is his suspicion—or, […]
Remember that serial dilution technique you learned in high school chemistry? You mix one part base or acid with nine parts solvent, and then take that solution and add nine parts solvent, and so continue […]
“Ask Me About Gene!” crowed the lapel buttons worn by liberal delegates to the Episcopal Church’s General Convention in August of 2003. The big issue of that Minneapolis meeting was whether to ratify the election […]
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