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In All Things
The cardinals who could well be voting for the next pope now number 121 -- 40 per cent of them appointed by Benedict XVI -- following the consistory this morning in Rome a solemn and colourful occasion in which the new members of the College promise to defend the Church even at the cost of martyrdo
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From CNS The Vatican is preparing a document for all bishops conferences offering guidelines for a coordinated and effective program of child protection and for dealing with allegations of clerical sexual abuse said Cardinal William J Levada prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of th
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While New Yorkers can be gratified to see the U S C C B presidency make a turn toward the northeast mdash and we at America can only be delighted that a friend of the House and contributor has been selected to head the conference best wishes and congrats Archbishop Tim Dolan mdash I can rsquo t
The Good Word
I have started my reading of Verbum Domini the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation of Benedict XVI on the ldquo Word of God in the life and mission of the Church rdquo At this point I have skimmed through most of the document and have read through about 30-40 pages carefully As a result my com
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One of the amusing effects of this week's announcement that Britain's Prince William is going to marry his long-time girlfriend, Kate Middleton, is that every copy of the blue dress that Kate was wearing at their photo-op has disappeared. The shops here in London say that they sold out of the dresses within 24 hours of the latest event-of-the-century announcement. People understand why, of course, at least intuitively: everybody wants to be somebody and the somebody that everybody who's anybody wants to be this week is either partner in Britain's new royal couple.
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The world s first Ordinariate -- a special jurisdiction for Anglicans becoming Catholics who are able to retain some of their traditions -- will be created by the Catholic Church in England and Wales its bishops announced today Their statement announced a timetable of ordinations formation and re
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Read the story from CNS s Sarah Delaney VATICAN CITY CNS -- Pope Benedict XVI and other church leaders said it was the moral responsibility of nations to guarantee access to health care for all of their citizens regardless of social and economic status or their ability to pay Access to adequate
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ldquo Inside Job rdquo is a documentary film about the economic meltdown of 2008 Its main point is that the resulting Great Recession was nbsp avoidable In fact no one listened to the few people who predicted the problems well in advance or acted on the implications of their predictions At le
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This morning I shared with Drew Christiansen our editor in chief an amazing video that someone sent me the other day nbsp Until then I had thought only still photographs existed of this remarkable event nbsp which is frequently nbsp retold in church histories of the time nbsp Early i
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Inside Higher Ed reported last week on a development from the University of Notre Dame following the tragic death of a student-worker on campus The student Declan Sullivan was filming a football game for the school in dangerous winds when the platform on which he was standing collapsed from u
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Catholic News Service reports that US bishops approved an historic document recognizing baptisms from four Protestant Churches From CNS BALTIMORE CNS -- In what Archbishop Wilton D Gregory of Atlanta called a milestone on the ecumenical journey the U S Catholic bishops affirmed an agreement
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With nbsp even greater nbsp resonance now for nbsp Catholics in the United States here is a repeat of a podcast episode featuring Archbishop Timothy Dolan the newly elected president of the USCCB nbsp During the interview which first ran on his weekly Sirius XM show in September the nbsp archb
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For those wishing to read to the end of Mortimer Adler s book previously discussed here his main theme is that the power of conceptual human thought is unduplicated anywhere else in the Universe It is the immaterial component in his constitution that makes him a person requires his special cre
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The US National Labor Relations Board NLRB has called upon Borgess Medical Center of Kalamazoo Michigan to appear before a hearing to respond to accusations of union-busting activity The charges describe actions taken in the course of contract negotiations with the Michigan Nurses Association
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I can t help feeling that the ugly scenes in the Greek capital yesterday when a mob descended on Muslims gathering for Eid prayers are going to become more common in Europe Just as Al-Qaeda scapegoats Christians in Iraq so Muslims are becoming convenient whipping-boys for rising European anxieti
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Here s Tom Reese on the surprising election of Archbishop Timothy Dolan as president of the USCCB At their meeting this week in Baltimore the U S bishops signaled that they are going to continue their conservative tilt in both the church and American politics This rightward tilt became evident s
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Describing himself surprised and humbled by the honor New York Archbishop Tim Dolan downplayed suggestions that his election represented a break with U S C C B tradition Tucson Bishop Gerald Kicanas as vice president of the U S Conference of Catholic Bishops for the expiring term was widely ex
In All Things
Though the bishops have been preoccupied with U S C C B issues naturally two matters have been a major preoccupation during this fall general assembly the precarious status of Iraqi Christians and the deteriorating conditions in Haiti On the latter I spoke with Catholic Relief Services Presi
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Having a Brit contributing to In All Things means you have to put up with strange spellings endless reports on indecisive Anglicans with their toes in the Tiber and stories about the Royal Family nbsp Except there haven t been any Not for a long time Not since the Queen Mother died and