BusinessWeek online, January 21, 1991, on Catechic, a Catholic trivia board game
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US Conference of Catholic Bishops: statement condemning workplace raids as immigration enforcement tactic (Sept. 10, 2008)
The head of the immigration subcommittee of the US Catholic Bishops conference criticizes the increasing use of large-scale armed workplace raids by the ICE as a tool for immigration enforcement. He doesn't say this explicitly, but due primarily to demographic and economic factors, Catholic churches have often borne the brunt of the massive humanitarian relief costs that arise in the wake of these raids, particularly in caring for abandoned children and other dependent family members (many of whom, not that it should matter, are actually U.S. citizens).
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In 1964, a candidate emerges from the Catholic imagination | National Catholic Reporter
The National Catholic Reporter's piece on Timothy Pettegrew, a fictional character featured in the children's comic series Treasure Chest, published by the rather short-lived Catholic "Commission on American Citizenship."
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Woman told not to talk about visions of Virgin Mary | Philadelphia Inquirer | 10/14/2008
From the page: "A Pennsylvania woman whose purported messages from the Virgin Mary have been discredited by the Roman Catholic Church has canceled her scheduled appearances in Maryland at the urging of the archbishop of Baltimore. The Lynfield Event Complex near Frederick says a series of regularly scheduled monthly prayer meetings featuring Gianna Sullivan have been canceled."
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Lyndsay Moss, "Pope: Millions are losing their religion and declaring God is dead," The Scotsman (Oct. 6, 2008)
Interesting how Benedict unproblematically draws this connection between religious belief and national identity.
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Catechism Edit 'Troubling,' Jewish Leaders Say - washingtonpost.com
This sentence will shortly be cut from the Roman Catholic catechism: "Thus the covenant that God made with the Jewish people through Moses remains eternally valid for them."
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Thomas Merton on "sanity" and Christianity in the modern world
Merton's thoughts on the finding that Eichmann was legally "sane": "sanity" is overrated in a world where mass destruction is considered an acceptable way of waging war. Given the modern situation, no Christian should aspire to sanity or realism.
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Robert Browning, "Bishop Blougram's Apology"
Browning's reflections on faith, skepticism, and tradition. I haven't finished the whole thing yet.
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Debating Mark Lilla on secularism: America magazine [7]
Two contemporary Catholic thinkers take on Mark Lilla's indictment of secularism in the pages of the Catholic periodical America.
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Debating Mark Lilla on secularism: America magazine
Two contemporary Catholic thinkers take on Mark Lilla's indictment of secularism in the pages of the Catholic periodical America.
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Mother Teresa's Crisis of Faith (TIME Magazine)
The postulator for Mother Teresa's canonization, Brian Kolodiejchuk, has published a book of her letters that reveal her deep doubt and lack of faith regarding the fundamentals of Christian doctrine extending through her career, almost 50 years.
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Controversy over Oscar Romero's possible beatification
Romero has become a popular hero to many Latin Americans because his unwillingness to moderate his stance against repression and state terror led to his assassination. Now the Vatican faces potential embarrassment over his possible canonization.
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A Catholic monastic PR resource: religionSisters United News Media Center
For a consortium of nuns' communities around the Uppoer Mississippi River Valley. Pooling resources for dealing with political activism and the media.
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Vatican threatens to boycott Holocaust memorial | International | Reuters
An exhibit in the Yad Vashem memorial museum in Jerusalem suggests that Pius XII was "apathetic" towards the plight of the Jews during WWII (most historians agree, though Pius's archives remain closed). The Vatican ambassador says he "would not feel comfo
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Zenit News Agency - The World Seen From Rome
Well, there you have it, straight from the Vatican. "Real" religion can't be a source of conflict.
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Bishop of Erie, PA challenges Catholic liturgy changes
Bp. Troutman of Erie, PA challenges what he sees as an attempt to roll back the reforms of Vatican II in the language of the North American Catholic liturgy.
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US Catholic Bishops: leave Iraq ASAP
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement calling for the US to withdraw its forces from Iraq "at the earliest opportunity." Debate was heavy but polite.
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