A commenter on a previous post alerted me to this story. It wasn’t three Boston Catholic Charities board members who resigned over the decision by Massachusetts’ bishops to seek an exemption to a state law requiring they participate in... [Continue Reading]
There goes the senior senator from my home state again. This time Ted Kennedy “remembers” a time when Barry Goldwater was president. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), hosting a morning roundtable with reporters, had nothing nice to say about Alito... [Continue Reading]
In the Soviet Socialist Republic of Canada, you can’t discriminate against homosexuals because of your religious belief, but apparently they can discriminate against you. Recall the recent story of a Knights of Columbus council in British... [Continue Reading]
Can you guess where this quote is from? If he and all of the other defendants had been degraded perverts, if all of the leaders of the [organization] were sadistic monsters and maniacs, then these events should have no more moral significance than... [Continue Reading]
Voice of the Faithful’s defenders are constantly reminding us that the group doesn’t take positions on controversial issues within the Church, such as women’s ordination. In fact, they say the group is “neutral” as if... [Continue Reading]
The National Geographic Society has a special site on Pope John Paul and the Vatican, including video clips from its documentary, “Inside the Vatican,” and photos from the accompanying book, as well as news stories, maps, and wallpapers.
This is one of my favorite pictures of the Pope, partly because of the personal aspect of it. On Wednesday, May 16, 2000, my brother John’s family received the extraordinary privilege of meeting Pope John Paul II at his Wednesday general... [Continue Reading]
The people protesting at a suppressed parish in East Boston are claiming that hundreds of thousands of dollars are missing from the parish’s accounts. First, let’s review the situation at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. In December, they were on... [Continue Reading]
In a story in World Magazine about a young couple who adopted some kids from a troubled home, the wife and mother has a very good revelation that bears remembering: “Real life had settled in, and I felt like God hadn’t paid me back in... [Continue Reading]
The protesters at the former St. Albert parish in Weymouth, Mass., show they have as little grasp of the US Constitution as they do of the nature of the Catholic Church. They went before the Weymouth town council to ask it to lobby the Archdiocese... [Continue Reading]