by Tom Hoopes
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 12:33 PM
Several sites are reporting that Father Roy Bourgeois has been excommunicated (even his Wikipedia entry has been updated!). At this writing the reports, including Wikipedia, are citing a Nov. 12 press release as evidence.
We wonder why the press release is dated Nov. 12, and doesn’t mention excommunication. I have a call in. More when we hear it.... READ MORE
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by Tom McFeely
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 10:56 AM
The Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute (C-FAM) is submitting a petition today to the United Nations calling on member states to protect unborn children and the traditional family.
The petition, signed by 350,000 people, asks governments to interpret properly the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which celebrates its 60th anniversary... READ MORE
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Filed under abortion, c-fam, universal declaration of human rights
by Tom McFeely
Tuesday, December 09, 2008 11:05 AM
Cardinal Antonio Canizares Llovera (Wikipedia)
Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Cardinal Antonio Canizares Llovera of Toledo, Spain, as the new prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship.
Cardinal Canizares succeeds Cardinal Francis Arinze, the Nigerian cardinal who has headed the congregation since 2002. Cardinal Arinze, who is 76, is expected to retire to his native Nigeria.
In Spain,... READ MORE
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by Tom McFeely
Tuesday, December 09, 2008 8:48 AM
The Pope and Metropolitan Kirill in December 2007 (CNS/Reuters)
News that Metropolitan Kirill was elected Saturday to be the interim leader of the Russian Orthodox Church means that he is now on course to succeed Patriarch Alexei II, whose funeral took place in Moscow today.
Metropolitan Kirill is expected to become the new patriarch in six months time.
But views on whether his election will be good for... READ MORE
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by Tom McFeely
Monday, December 08, 2008 9:20 AM
(CNS)
Today is the liturgical celebration of the Immaculate Conception — the national feast day of the United States and a day of obligation for American Catholics.
Over at the Whispers in the Loggia website, Rocco Palmo is marking the occasion by reprinting this year’s Immaculate Conception homily from Washington, D.C. priest Father Milt Jordan,... READ MORE
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by Tom McFeely
Monday, December 08, 2008 6:30 AM
Sen. Joe Biden at Samuel Alito's 2005 confirmation hearings. (AFP)
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and Vice President-elect Joe Biden are both Catholics, but that’s just about all that they have in common.
Biden was one of the U.S. Senators who most strongly opposed Alito’s nomination to the Supreme Court in 20005, primarily because Biden and other liberal Senate Democrats worried that Alito’s solid... READ MORE
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by Tom Hoopes
Sunday, December 07, 2008 12:53 PM
I said last week that Matt Lickona’s interesting review nonetheless didn’t tell me whether or not my daughter can watch the movie Twilight.
If you’re reading, dear, I just read Steven D. Greydanus and, ahem, you can’t.
Writing on his own site, DecentFilms.com, the Register’s film critic compares Twilight, helpfully, to Titanic. Both movies have... READ MORE
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by Tom Hoopes
Sunday, December 07, 2008 11:34 AM
Frank Langella plays Nixon in a performance that’s getting rave reviews. But a USA Today story reminds readers that Langella is also playing another famous politician right now: St. Thomas More, on Broadway.
“I am playing in both of these men the loneliness of good and the loneliness of evil,” he says. “I never thought of it before.”
Langella... READ MORE
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by Tom Hoopes
Saturday, December 06, 2008 12:00 PM
As promised, here’s our editorial on fear in the American context. — Tom Hoopes
America, Be Not Afraid
“For religious believers, our times offer a daunting yet exhilarating challenge,” said Pope John Paul II in the year 2000 at the U.S. National Prayer Breakfast. “I would go so far as to say that their task is to save democracy from... READ MORE
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by Tom Hoopes
Saturday, December 06, 2008 9:46 AM
Russell Shaw warns that “Assorted Catholic voices have been raised lately calling on Catholics to give President-elect Obama a chance and look for common ground between him and the Church. Part of the message is: ‘Don’t worry about the Freedom of Choice Act.’”
He lists in the “Don’t Worry” crowd: The editors of Commonweal, the National Catholic... READ MORE
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