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Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 2, 2011 at 6:10 am A priest at my parent’s parish is a recovering alcoholic. Two days ago he was found unconcious on the floor clutching a bottle of vodka. He’s been in the hospital since then....
Rhode Island's "Holiday Tree" Provokes Criticism
The Religion Clause - Dec 2, 2011 at 6:10 am Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee has generated controversy after a press release announcing a "holiday tree lighting" to be held in the Statehouse Rotunda on Dec. 6. AP reported...
Obama and Family Light New National Christmas Tree
The Religion Clause - Dec 2, 2011 at 6:05 am AP reports that yesterday President Obama, along with his family, attended the lighting of the National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse. In his remarks (full text) before he and his...
Court Rebuffs New Claims By Officer Disciplined For Refusing To Attend Event At Mosque
The Religion Clause - Dec 2, 2011 at 6:00 am In Fields v. City of Tulsa, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 136522 (ND OK, Nov. 28, 2011), an Oklahoma federal district court rejected an attempt by a Tulsa police officer to file a second...
Expert addresses claim Vatican II 'ruptured' Church teaching
EWTN - Vatican News - Dec 2, 2011 at 6:00 am Vatican City, Dec 2, 2011 / 06:00 pm (EWTN News).-
A leading figure involved in the Vatican's negotiations with the breakaway traditionalist group the Society of St. Pius X says...
Islamists expected to become Egypt's 'most important political force'
EWTN - World Catholic News - Dec 2, 2011 at 5:52 am Cairo, Egypt, Dec 2, 2011 / 05:52 am (EWTN News).-
While Egyptian authorities have put off announcing the final results of Nov. 28-29 parliamentary elections, proponents of...
Hissing Cauldron of Lust
Commonweal - Dec 2, 2011 at 5:49 am Like all generally good things, some issues of The New Yorker can be better than others. Any issue which features a movie review by Anthony Lane already is heading in the “better...
Do Newt's Divorces Play a Role in Your Decision?
Creative Minority Report - Dec 2, 2011 at 5:42 am I'm not really a Newt fan. I'll take him over Obama, of course but I'm talking in the primary. There's a lot about the guy that I don't really trust. But I don't trust Mitt either...
Kenrick enrollment is stable following ‘significant increase’
Saint Louis Review - St. Louis News - Dec 2, 2011 at 5:37 am By Barb Watkins | bwatkins@archstl.org
Enrollment at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary, the seminary of the St. Louis Archdiocese, is stable, with 113...
iPhone’s lack of abortion clinic advice not intentional, Apple says
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 2, 2011 at 5:12 am Cupertino, Calif., Dec 2, 2011 / 06:12 am (CNA).- The failure of the iPhone’s Siri program to locate some abortion clinics drew praise from pro-lifers and criticism from pro-...
Is Benedict XVI going to accept the petitions of the fundamentalists?
Vatican Insider - Dec 2, 2011 at 5:08 amFlorida bishop says diocese will not follow contraception mandate
EWTN - US Latest News - Dec 2, 2011 at 3:13 am St. Petersburg, Fla., Dec 2, 2011 / 03:13 am (EWTN News).-
St. Petersburg Bishop Robert N. Lynch says his diocese will not comply with proposed federal rules requiring insurance...
Abortion bill targeting unborn with risk of AIDS draws criticism
EWTN - World Catholic News - Dec 2, 2011 at 2:18 am Madrid, Spain, Dec 2, 2011 / 02:18 pm (EWTN News).- Critics say the European Parliament's recently passed measure allowing abortion for fetuses at risk of contracting HIV is based...
Detroit archdiocese council recommends nine parish closures, 60 mergers
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 2, 2011 at 2:08 am Detroit, Mich., Dec 2, 2011 / 03:08 am (CNA).- Responding to decades of depopulation in Detroit and other declines in Catholic numbers, an advisory council for the Archdiocese of...
Vatican council calls for universal access to AIDS treatments
EWTN - Vatican News - Dec 2, 2011 at 1:26 am Vatican City, Dec 2, 2011 / 01:26 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
To mark World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers appealed for universal access to life-...
So it’s come to this
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 2, 2011 at 1:09 am I have this recurring picture in my mind of the demons who were in charge of 20th Century mass murder sitting around some bar in hell grousing about the crappy job the new young...
Given that according to John Paul II…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 2, 2011 at 1:07 am man and woman are the road the Church must walk, a blog devoted to being effectively human seems like a decent-hearted undertaking.
