Wow.  Have been noodling the way priests ad lib words of the mass, did some checking and found this: The Holy See’s 2004 disciplinary document, Redemptionis Sacramentum, states very emphatically: 59. The reprobated practice by which priests,…

This project rocks.  Show God to homeless, somehow, some way, and they change their lives.  Sounds like a war on poverty to me. Just one thing about it makes me cringe: they speak of ending homelessness, which is utopian talk.  Heaven on…

In a Dawn T. Trice story about a homeless organizer: In the summer of 1999, Richard was living in a halfway house on the West Side and considering suicide when a priest from the Ignatian Spirituality Project visited. The project is a Jesuit ministry th…

Q. Are you struck with the overnight “canonization” of Elizabeth Edwards by the media?
A. I am indeed. No one takes away from her the anguish she faced with the death of her son….the emergence of breast cancer…the public infidelity of her husband and the humiliation that caused…the grave worsening of the cancer and her calm reserve as she faced death. All these things are to the good. But I am mystified by her failure to mention God in any way in her last words written …

Has the Scripture prescribed for reading at mass been dumbed down since Vatican 2? Here’s the gospel for today, Saturday of the First Week of Advent: Jesus went around to all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the G…

US bishops break precedent, elect Archbishop Dolan as conference …
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The US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has elected New York’s Archbishop Timothy Dolan as president, in a vote that marks a major break from …
In upset, NYC archbishop elected head of US bishops’ conference …‎ – The Canadian Press
New Catholic Bishops President Chided Biden, Pelosi on Abortion‎ -LifeNews.com

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I’ve had it up to here with over-coverage and over-reaction to all the doings around the 9th anniversary of 9/11, notably the lunatic, publicity-seeking “preacher” who wants to burn Qurans and the politicians exploiting irrational fear and anger at the building of an Islamic center amid the saloons and porn shops a few blocks from “ground zero,” and especially those who want to link the two together.

The real desecration of the World Trade Center site was perpetrated by the political and financial interests who wrangled for years over what was to …

Most of the time I look with a mixture if disdain and comic bemusement at the “birthers” who purport that Barack Obama was not born in America or that he is a Muslim or both. For many it’s a political tool used to help delegitimatize his presidency; for others it’s a way of expressing their dislike of either his blackness or “otherness” without quite admitting racism or bigotry.

There will always be a lunatic fringe on one or another side of American politics—including those on the left who still think 9/11 …

In any legal or constitutional showdown over whether a mosque can be built near Ground Zero, the mosque would win, hands down.

The First Amendment of the Constitution requires it. The amendment, perhaps the most cherished of the Bill of Rights, guarantees that government may not interfere with the practice of religion.
Not that Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf and his Cordoba House have earned such protections. The widespread feeling is that the imam is using our deeply rooted belief in liberty to shove his mosque down our throats, knowing full well that …