According to a CNS story I overlooked that was posted earlier this week Mercy Sister Margaret McBride has been restored to Catholic in good standing status Sister McBride s automatic excommunication was publicly noted by Phoenix Bishop Thomas Olmsted because of her role in approving an abortion

Cambridge MA Readers will recall that back in June I blogged on an essay on Beliefnet by Rajiv Malhotra on Spirit is not the same as Shakti or Kundalini I intended simply to call attention of American readers to this thoughtful post by a Hindu author The comments on my piece however in

Former Sen Rick Santorum who appears still to be running for president is making headlines in Iowa for flouting the teachings of the Catholic Church on immigration despite his very public professions of faith From the Des Moines Register The nation rsquo s Roman Catholic bishops are wrong by ca

The good news of course for America is that U S troops are returning home and the costly adventure in Iraq drawing to a close According to the timetable endorsed by Iraq and the United States virtually all U S troops should be on their way home by the end of December The bad news What is to

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp On this Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the season of Advent we can share our own special Marian stories nbsp nbsp Mine takes place decades ago on a night when I was desperately praying to Mary for help nbsp As my pleas continued I began to vividly experie

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