Over at the National Catholic Reporter John Allen offers an inside baseball look at exactly what the heck is going on at the Vatican regarding the L C W R clampdown or is it Allen offers a somewhat calming dissection of the behind the scenes jockeying that took place is probably still taking pl

Aaron Blake at the Washington Post spots a phenom hiding in plain site While reporters spent the GOP primary season tracking the ups and downs of the average Republican evangelical s psychologcial digestion of Mitt Romney s Mormonism in the background the Catholics were coming the Catholics were

Under fire for misrepresenting Catholic Social Teaching before his speach at Georgetown Congressman Ryan aimed to debunk the urban legend that he is follower of Ayn Rand in an interview at The National Review ldquo I reject her philosophy rdquo Ryan says firmly ldquo It rsquo s an atheist p

Last week on the day when the Vatican released the results of its investigation of the nbsp Leadership Conference of Women Religious which represents 80 percent of women rsquo s religious orders in this country I received emails from several Catholic sisters All described themselves as saddened

The article I cited yesterday from the Hill inspires two further comments First the author Alexander Bolton quotes Deal Hudson a conservative Catholic convert who many readers will remember as the former editor of Crisis magazine now defunct Currently Mr Hudson heads the Catholic Advoca

The following announcement was posted on the website of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious in response to the Vatican s Assessment of the LCWR nbsp The national board of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious will meet May 29 - June 1 2012 to nbsp begin its discussion of nbsp t