“Ardent Catholic” and holder of a 100% Pro-Choice Voting Record by NARAL, Nancy Pelosi met with His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI. Maybe I’m confused Speaker Pelosi, but I think Pope Benedict XVI is probably in a better position than any of us to define what makes an “ardent Catholic.” You see, in my humble outside-the-beltway […]

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I attended a prayer service last night with our bishop, Cardinal DiNardo. Funny and witty as always, he managed to do a little name-dropping and said that when he was having lunch with the Holy Father and his brother cardinals on the occasion of the papal visit to the United States and then, he quickly […]

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For those of us who are already missing the Holy Father, We Belong to the Lord has done a wonderful job of hosting this week’s Catholic carnival. He’s got some wonderful pictures of Benedict XVI woven together with the best of what Catholic bloggers have to say this week. Go read, comment, and encourage Catholic […]

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While rightly charging United States bishops with doing all in their power to heal the dreadful wounds caused by priests who forsake their vows and prey on children, the Holy Father also rightly draws attention to the wider context of what it means to fully protect children. Although I have seen him attacked and accused […]

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I feel like some kind of groupie….everything I have ever read by Benedict XVI makes me love and respect him more and then he says something like THIS and I positively want to swoon…
In Christianity, there can be no room for purely private religion: Christ is the Savior of the world, and, as members of […]

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Judas is neither a master of evil nor the figure of a demoniacal power of darkness but rather a syncophant who bows down before the anonymous power of changing moods and current fashion. But it is precisely this anonymous power that crucified Jesus, for it was anonymous voices that cried, “Away with him! Crucify him!” […]

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