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• Open Letter to Pope Francis by Member of Roman Curia, Central Administration of...

  

  It’s one thing for lay Catholics like Ann Barnhardt or FOTM to criticize Pope Francis — and to do so at the risk of excommunication, according to the pope’s... Read more

  The 12 december 2015 by   Eowyn
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• Catholic Church Under Pope Francis: Critics Censored, Threatened with...

  

  Since he was elected pope in 2013 (some say unlawfully, in violation of Papal Law No. 91), Jorge Bergoglio has evinced expansive good will toward many and sundr... Read more

  The 10 december 2015 by   Eowyn
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• Pope Francis’s Vatican Put on a Pagan Light Show on the Feast Day of Our Lady’s...

  

  Last Tuesday, December 8, 2015, was the feast day of the Immaculate Conception, a holy day of obligation when Catholics attend Mass in honor and remembrance of... Read more

  The 14 december 2015 by   Eowyn
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• On the Right Track: the Muzungu’s First Ugandan Train Ride

  

  Rift Valley Railways relaunches Kampala passenger train service after 20 year breakAnother first this week: my first Ugandan train journey on the Rift Valley... Read more

  The 13 december 2015 by   Diaryofamuzungu
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• Detroit Free Press Article About Gay Couple Who Are Active Catholics: An Image o...

  

  If you're looking for a rather neat snapshot of the two theological universes that coexist uneasily in American Catholicism today, especially vis-a-vis the... Read more

  The 15 december 2015 by   William Lindsey
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• Opening Doors Or Closing Them? Anthea Butler Comments on Pope Francis and...

  

  Anthea Butler, writing at Religion Dispatches today:On the eve of Pope Francis' opening the Holy Doors of St. Peter's for the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy,... Read more

  The 09 december 2015 by   William Lindsey
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• Frank Brennan, SJ, on the Australian Catholic Bishops and Marriage Equality: My...

  

  I very much appreciate that Chris Morley recommended to us Jesuit Father Frank Brennan's recent article at Eureka Street noting the futility of the battle of... Read more

  The 11 december 2015 by   William Lindsey
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• Judicial Ruling in Massachusetts: Catholic Schools Cannot Claim That Religious...

  

  And so yesterday as I was blogging about the choice of a Catholic school on the far-right fringes of U.S. political life and of the Catholic academy to obtain... Read more

  The 18 december 2015 by   William Lindsey
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• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoyevskyMy Rating: 4 ...

  

  The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoyevskyMy rating: 4 of 5 starsMy friend Michael Anderson, told me that it was one of the greatest books that reflected the... Read more

  The 12 december 2015 by   Polycarp55
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