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Cardinal Francis George President of the Bishops rsquo Conference is to be commended for the statement he issued last night opposing the final health care reform bill I do not agree with the policy conclusion reached by the USCCB as I mentioned yesterday Still unlike some of the previous stat

The so-called Anglican Catholic Church in Canada ACCC which has about 45 parishes has written to Rome to apply for an ordinariate Its three active bishops propose setting up a governing council to suggest a terna from which the Pope can select the Canadian ordinariate s first ordinary or canoni

In the wake of its controversial decision to withhold health benefits for spouses of all new employees Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of Washington took another step that will inevitably alienate potential hires The Washington Post reports that Shortly after imposing limits on spousal healt

Lisa Miller s new book on Heaven comes out in two weeks and were happy to have one of the first interviews with the author Thanks to assistant editor Kerry Weber for leading this discussion of God and the afterlife with Miller the religion editor at Newsweek Listen to Kerry s interview with Lisa

As the Congress gets ready for final votes on the health care reform bills the USCCB maintains that they cannot support the final bill because it permits federal funding of abortion But a series of analyses have raised questions about the factual accuracy of the assertions made by the USCCB The

Cambridge MA Saturday March 13 As you know I generally leave to others the hottest issues of the day preferring to offer for your reflections comments on less noticed topics that captivate me at least most recently the relevance of the medieval Hindu poet saints Antal and Tirumalisai Piran to

Since so many of our blogposts lately have thanks to recent nbsp events nbsp dealt with homosexuality same-sex marriage and so on here s a gay Catholic speaking about what it means to be one nbsp Andrew Sullivan author former editor of The New Republic and blogger on The Daily Dish at Pri

nbsp As Tom Beaudoin mentioned in his post below the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress begins this week and will attract over 40 000 Catholics to the Anaheim Convention Center for Masses workshops lectures and–my guiltiest pleasure–spending my limited stipend on all the new Cat

nbsp As a native and in my heart current Philadelphian I am totally biased about the new film that Kerry Weber has reviewed The Art of the Steal about the highly controversial move of the little-known-but-now-much-more-well-known Barnes Foundation a small museum in Merion Pa in

I have found myself marveling this week at the small parade of gay-outings among U S politicians Like previous media outings of closeted politicians these expose men who have often built their reputations and careers on their passion for family values and their antipathy to anything that smacks o