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The jaw-dropping revelations of the appalling double life of Mexico s Marcial Maciel just keep coming James Ellroy wouldn t write such stuff and expect anyone to buy it Two years after his death the execrable life and times of the founder of the powerful Catholic religious order the Legion of Chr

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My client is not in a hurry the great Catalan architect Antoni Gaud iacute 1852-1926 used to say when people asked him when his Sagrada Familia cathedral would be finished It looks now as if his client is chivvying things along News from Rome is that Pope Benedict will consecrate this work o

Kudos to Representative Bart Stupak the pro-life Democrat from Michigan who has insisted throughout the health care debate that he wanted to see a bill pass provided it did not include government funding of abortion While deals were being made on virtually every other issue he dug in his heels d

I have now heard from a number of respondents about my earlier post asking whether tenured theologians have an obligation to help rethink the present system of academic labor Several rightly criticized the post for not going far enough Inspired by those responses and ready to put more cards on th