I was wondering how long it would take this shoe to drop With all those Aussie editors scattered to the far corners of the Murdoch empire did anyone really think questionable practices to put it most kindly would be limited to the U K and a couple of royalty-mad tabloids CNN is reporting that t

Joshua Green of The Atlantic Monthly quotes the omnipresent Bill Donohue in his piece regarding Michele Bachmann s church affiliation Obama had to answer for Wright McCain had to answer for Rev John Hagee and this is something that Bachmann has to answer for nbsp Indeed Ms Bachmann is ob

The recent legislative endorsement of same-sex marriage here in New York and the tension between the official Catholic opposition to it and what appears to be fairly strong support for it by lay Catholics has me thinking about what it takes to do theology from non-normative if you will perspecti

I grew up in suburban Philadelphia and as a kid in Catholic school Eucharistic adoration was a regular feature of our observance of the liturgical year especially during Lent As a practice adoration has deep historical roots in the church in Philadelphia roots that extend at least as far back a

Ireland s Cloyne Report was released today and it offers another spit-take inducing portrait of a hierarchy in dysfunction well after it could offer any reasonable excuse to be regarding sexual abuse committed by clerics In fact The context of this report differs significantly from the context

You may think Toledo Bishop Leonard Blair s decision to prohibit fundraising for breast cancer-fighting Komen Foundation to be foolish overkill or sound pastoral groundskeeping I don t know But I do find myself wondering what sort of bias is being nurtured over at the Toledo Blade when I stumbled