The Episcopal Church has voted to appoint a lesbian bishop Like Gene Robinson whose election in 2003 split the Anglican Communion Mary Glasspool elected a suffragan by the Diocese of Los Angeles Saturday is in a long-term gay relationship She views her election as in political terms ldquo An

In my post the other day on the Swiss vote to ban Muslim minarets I missed something I ve just learned from The Tablet While the Swiss Catholic bishops and the Vatican -- along with religious leaders across Europe -- deplored this assault on religious freedom the traditionalist Society of St Pi

Seems like many of our posts have generated a lot of heat lately nbsp Here s some light from the Ignatian Schola a group of Jesuits and their lay friends who perform contemporary and traditional religious songs nbsp Here s how they describe themselves on their website The Ignatian Schola is a

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This week on EWTN where it is playing in heavy rotation I saw once again this marvelous film--written and produced by two Jesuit scholastics Jeremy Zipple SJ and Jeff Johnson SJ who also raised the funds for this amazing video on their own nbsp Their filming took them from Spain to Paris to

Like Fr Jim I cheered Cardinal Bergoglio s view -- also Pope Benedict s -- about the importance of liberality in granting access to the Sacrament of baptism Infants cannot be disqualified because there are no proper grounds for disqualifying the innocent even if their parents show little sign of