From CNS Revised Vatican norms to cover sex abuse attempted women s ordination Friday July 9 2010 By John Thavis Catholic News Service nbsp VATICAN CITY CNS -- The Vatican is preparing to update the 2001 norms that deal with priestly sex abuse of minors in effect codifying practices that ha

Each morning on my way to work I pass by the newest branch of the Church of Scientology It rsquo s an impressive structure recently outfitted for the transition from office building to religious center There was a grand opening a couple months ago with quite a theatrical set built out front to a

I ve been thinking a lot about Bishop Kevin Dowling lately As you probably have seen nbsp in the past few posts Dowling an outspoken South African bishop gave a frank nbsp talk to a group of lay leaders in Cape Town in June Yesterday a friend sent me a link to his thoughtful address posted on

The saga of South African Bishop Kevin Dowling s incendiary address which was up before being down and then up again on the good old internet took a step or two closer to truthiness when NCR was able to wrangle some kind of explanation from Dowling about the speech he presented June 1 before a sma

There is much bad news in the press today about a Waterbury CT priest who appears to have failed his community in just about every way possible By chance I came upon the story of another Waterbury CT priest who ran his race a little better I thought it might be worth sharing for those folks in W

The address by South African Bishop Kevin Dowling has been reposted at Independent Catholic News So far no explanation as to why it was taken down from the site editor Owing to the rather frank tone of the address there has been some speculation swirling around the net that may be getting ahead o