Non-Religious Get Bolder
Posted by Tom Hoopes
Sunday, May 03, 2009 1:47 PM
Good luck with that. Ask the Soviets how that went. (Steve Garfield photo)
We’ve had much discussion lately about the “decline and fall of Christian America, as the Newsweek cover story put it,” writes Steven Waldman at The Wall Street Journal. “But based on a new survey that came out from Pew Religion Forum, I’d like to pose a different theory: What we’re seeing is not a flight of the religious but rather the changing nature of the irreligious.”
Says Waldman:
The Pew... READ MORE
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Mother's Day for Wives
Posted by Tom Hoopes
Sunday, May 03, 2009 3:59 AM
Lots of Mother’s Day buzz surrounds a book from Ayelet Waldman. She’s a media darling because of her radical liberal views — and buzzy because she “admitted” loving her husband more than her kids.
The Church would echo her daughter’s sentiments about that admission: “Duh.” But we remember Walman’s far more troubling 2006 admission ...
In a USA Today interview about her new book, Bad... READ MORE
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Faith Looks at Wall St.
Posted by Tom Hoopes
Sunday, April 05, 2009 6:30 AM
“This is a great article and highly relevant in 2009. It may be worth running it again for your readers,” writes a reader. And we comply ...
The Pope and St. Joseph on Wall Street
BY Angelo Matera
May 11-17, 2003 National Catholic Register
Does a “free” economy in itself fulfill the requirements of Catholic justice?
Pope John Paul II, drawing on 2,000 years of Catholic tradition, has... READ MORE
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Gallup: 3 Grains of Salt
Posted by Tom Hoopes
Saturday, April 04, 2009 8:24 AM
Last weekend’s Gallup Poll came to unsettling conclusions about Catholic beliefs. We’re to be salt and light, so I hereby offer three grains of salt to take with the poll (next post: the light it sheds).
1. Nonsmokers smoke Marlboros. No doubt the faith of Catholics today is weak. But how weak? We don’t know from this survey. If you administer a survey that asks, at the top, “Are you a smoker or... READ MORE
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Catholic Movie Night
Posted by Tom Hoopes
Saturday, March 07, 2009 2:00 PM
Pope's own Catholic movie night, watching the CBS John Paul. (CNS/Vatican)
In the last post, I referred to Hoopes Catholic Movie Night. We have one every week.
The rules are simple: One night a week we watch a mainstream movie that portrays the Catholic faith. That’s it. A priest counts. Rocky Balboa praying counts (but only if there’s a tabernacle in the chapel, which there is in Rocky II. There’s also a priest). Bible movies, implicitly, count.
We try to mix... READ MORE
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De Souza: 'What Dolan Taught'
Posted by Daily Blog
Thursday, February 26, 2009 3:07 PM
Archbishop Dolan in Milwaukee. CNS photo/Sam Lucero, Catholic Herald
Here follows a story soon to be published in the National Catholic Register:
New Archbishop to New York
‘Larger Than Life’ Figure Dolan Taught What Priesthood Means
By Father Raymond J. de Souza
NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER
The garrulous Timothy Michael Dolan, preacher and raconteur extraordinaire, chooses his words carefully. And when ordained a bishop in 2001 in St. Louis, his first words... READ MORE
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