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Yes, it happened in Austria, but still, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn is a former student of Joseph Ratzinger, a.k.a. Pope Benedict XVI, and a confidant, they say. From the Rorate Caeli blog, via Dreher:
The Archdiocese of Vienna confirmed on Friday the election of a 26-year-old homosexual...
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A story I can't get out of my head, and I probably shouldn't:
Sgt. Dennis Weichel, 29, died in Afghanistan last week as he lifted an Afghan girl who was in the path of a large military vehicle barreling down a road.
Weichel, a Rhode Island National Guardsman, was riding along in a convoy...
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At RealClearReligion.org, Rick Santorum has a column talking about how "It Is Hard to Be Catholic in Public Life." The Republican candidate for president makes it easier for himself, however, by distinguishing between "prudential matters" and "moral absolutes," a division that happens to cleave ne...
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The question of why there is something rather than nothing, creatio ex nihilo, is a standard starting point for discussions about the existence of God, or the last line of defense for wobbly believers and debaters.
In a book that has generated much debate, Lawrence M. Krauss rather confidently (...
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All that nasty ad hominem stuff Rick says about Mitt? Nothing personal -- it's just business! So he tells The Brody File:
"I talked to Mitt Romney Saturday night. We had a very cordial conversation...My conversations with Mitt are cordial. One of the things I've really kept, this is not ab...
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NCR's John Allen posts a transcript of Pope Benedict XVI's in-flight "press conference"* on his way to Mexico (he heads to Cuba today), that includes this standard conservative talking point about being a "personally opposed but..." kind of Catholic:
One sees in Latin America, and also els...
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GQ reports that Rick Santorum has chosen his own code name now that he has earned Secret Service protection (bet he'd trade it for delegates).
Drum roll, please. It is...
"Petrus."
No, really.
The use of code words to refer to candidates are a throwback to the era when Secret Service...
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Remember Jeremy Lin? And that thing called "Lin-sanity" and the feel-good stories about his unlikely emergence as a star guard for the once hapless New York Knicks? And his humble Christian faith?
Well, that was a couple weeks and a big losing streak ago. Oh, and under the previous coach, who...
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America's latest editorial is powerful and persuasive, and takes to task those bishops and their allies who might be overreaching after President Obama's compromise on the birth control issue. "By pushing the religious liberty campaign to cover the fine points of healthcare coverage, the campaign devalues the coinage of religious liberty."
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There are many people, Catholics in particular, who have objected to the Obama administration’s decision not to expand the religious exemption in the new federal regulations mandating that all employer health insurance plans provide free contraceptive coverage. But perhaps few have as much cause to complain – and are less likely to do so – than the nine Catholic educators (one a student) honored by the White House last week.
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David Gibson is an award-winning religion journalist, author and filmmaker. He writes for RNS and until recently covered the religion beat for AOL's Politics Daily. He blogs at Commonweal magazine, and has written two books on Catholic topics, the latest a biography of Pope Benedict XVI.
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