WASHINGTON — Time ticks away for Father Roy Bourgeois.

He’s the high-profile Maryknoll priest who took part in a women’s ordination ceremony in August 2008.

Despite a canonical warning from his order soon after the ceremony, which was sponsored by Roman Catholic Womenpriests in Lexington, Ky., the priest refused to recant and was automatically excommunicated three months later.

“Sufficient time has now passed for you to consider the gravity of the matter,” the canonical warning said. “You are hereby asked one final time by the superior general and his council to publicly recant and accept the teaching of the Church on this serious matter concerning priestly ordination and the explicit...READ MORE

George Harne was named the fourth president of the College of Saint Mary Magdalen in Warner, N.H., in February.

Harne, who succeeds Jeffrey Karls, served as the college’s academic dean since 2009. He has also taught courses in philosophy, Latin and mathematics.

He holds advanced degrees in music history, musicology and liberal studies, with a Ph.D. in musicology from Princeton.

Harne and his wife have four children ranging in age from 21 months to 10.

From his office on campus, he spoke to Register staff writer Joseph Pronechen by phone and email about his vision and goals for the college.

How do you see your role changing from academic dean?

As academic dean, my focus was primarily on the...READ MORE

Stages of the Spiritual Life by Father R. Tomasek S.J. - Therese Rita, Zeal for Your House Consumes Me: Following Christ in the 21st Century

“I Am the Resurrection and the Life” - Bill Wright, Speaking of Scripture

The Good Samaritan:  Part One - Stacy Trasancos, Accepting Abundance

What Others Think of Us - Randy Hain, The Integrated Catholic Life™

Would You Eat a Spider for Christ? - Richard Collins, Linen on the Hedgerow

Switzerland’s Bishop Huonder Triumphs in Rome - Tancred, The Eponymous Flower

Your Moment of Zen - Kathryn Lopez, Catholic Vote

Equal Basic Rights for All, Born and Unborn - Christopher Kaczor, Public Discourse

Controlling Human Genetic Engineering Part I -...READ MORE

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops expressed strong objections March 30 to the “doctrine of God” arising from the methodology employed in Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God, a popular textbook used in some undergraduate theology classes.

Asserting that its author, Sister Elizabeth Johnson of the Sisters of St. Joseph, a highly regarded Fordham University theologian, “employs standards from outside the faith to criticize and to revise in a radical fashion the conception of God revealed in Scripture and taught by the magisterium,” the 21-page statement issued by the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine defended the rare public notification as...READ MORE

Vatican II And Tradition Too! - Robert Kumpel, The Last Papist Standing

The 4th, 5th & 6th Stations of the Cross, with Saint Alphonsus - Reginaldus, The New Theological Movement

Dogma and Mystery - Charles Cardinal Journet, Ignatius Insight

Pope John Paul II at Canterbury Cathedral - Stephanie A. Mann, Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation

A Pagan Convert: Libby Edwards - Why I’m Catholic

Our Lady is Definitely Not Blonde - Richard Collins, Linen on the Hedgerow

Wednesday 4th Week of a Lent: “He Crowns His Own Merits in Us” - Father John Zuhlsdorf, What Does The Prayer Really Say?

Are Depression and Boredom Interconnected? - Lisa Graas

Marriage & Procreation: Avoiding Bad...READ MORE

BOSTON — Criticism of the Boston Archdiocese’s lay pension system escalated last week, first as a former chancellor called for an independent takeover, and then as mediation with an order of nuns suing the archdiocese failed.

The Daughters of St. Paul filed suit in December against Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley and the pension plan trustees. They had tried unsuccessfully for six years to withdraw the pension money of 44 of their lay employees from the archdiocesan fund.

The sisters are an international order with about 135 members in the United States. They run a multimedia publishing house, Pauline Books and Media, as part of their mission.

The Daughters had planned to establish a...READ MORE

Little Known Welsh Marian Shrine: The Shrine of Our Lady of Penrhys - Richard Collins, Linen on the Hedgerow

Atheist Convert: Jeff Miller (The Curt Jester) - Why I’m Catholic

God Made Me This Way - Melinda Selmys, Sexual Authenticity

The Roman Canon, Part III (Communicantes) - Jake Tawney, Roma locuta est

Medieval Wisdom for Modern Universities - Matthew J. Milner, Public Discourse

We Shouldn’t Need Signs and Wonders - Father Philip Neri Powell O.P. Ph.D., Domine da mihi hanc aquam!

The Best Catholic Film of All Time (The Cardinal) - Taylor Marshall, Canterbury Tales

The First Three Stations of the Cross, with Saint Alphonsus - Reginaldus, New Theological Movement

Lent And Holy Week...READ MORE

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Catholic Church’s Top P.R. Man Retires! - Richard Collins, Linen on the Hedgerow

Violence and Myth on the Costa del Sol - Ches, The Sensible Bond

The Pope’s Army Comes to New York, 1868 Anno Domini - Pat McNamara

Overprescribing the Pill - Elise Ehrhard, InsideCatholic

Getting Wound Up About “Taliban Catholicism” - Anthony S. Layne, The Impractical Catholic

Civil Unions Not about Love, Equality; They’re Doorways to “Gay Marriage” - Archbishop Charles J. Chaput O.F.M. Cap., Archdiocese of Denver

Viva Cristo Rey - Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

You Decide - Father John Zuhlsdorf, What Does The Prayer...READ MORE