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Drawn to Catholicism

Sanctus Christopher (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

Owen Swain, of the one-time "Luminous Miseries" blog has returned: Drawn to Catholicism , a comic diary of a Catholic convert. It's fantastic.

Catholic bishops endorse Pelosi Plan with Stupak amendment?

Hot Air (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Consider this a pre-update on a post that I was writing about Catholic conscience exemptions. The US Conference of Catholic Bishops had opposed the Pelosi plan because of its federal funding for abortions. Now that Pelosi has allowed the Stupak amendment to come to a vote today, a rider that ...

Leo The Great On Washington

Wheat & Weeds (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

A nice post on the Father of our country and his relations with Catholics, occasioned by the anniversary a few days ago of his ban on the celebration of Guy Fawkes day in the military. Excellent stuff, but this was entirely new to me: did you know Leo the Great called Washington "great"? And in an encyclical no less, so it might be an infallible judgment. Precisely at the epoch when the American...

Top Anglican author converts to Rome

The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday

Former priest announces move to Catholic church A bestselling author and Anglican priest has launched an outspoken attack on the Church of England and revealed that he is converting to Catholicism. GP Taylor, whose children's book Shadowmancer became an international bestseller and is being turned into a film, accused the church of sinking "into a liberal pit that was no earthly use and offered...

Powerhouse Priests Spar Over What it Means to Be Catholic

Time (Free subscription) | yesterday

A pair of prelates face off over pro-choice politicians in an unusually public dispute that threatens to split American Catholics

Pope's Power Grab?

Godzdogz (Free subscription) | yesterday

Since the Vatican announced that an Apostolic Constitution would be forthcoming from Pope Benedict XVI that would allow Anglicans to enter corporately into full communion with the Catholic Church, while maintaining some of their legitimate liturgical rites and traditions, there have been many reactions, some positive and others decidedly less so. In particular, a number of commentators in the secular...

Italy government to appeal ruling on classroom crucifixes

Christian Today (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

The Italian government is to appeal a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights last week determining that the hanging of crucifixes in school classrooms violates religious and education freedoms

Women of the Democratic Party - it's time to show your fierceness

Blog for Democracy (Free subscription) | yesterday

Here is the list of Democratic Congresspersons who voted for the Stupak Amendment - HR3962 According to Planned Parenthood: This amendment is an unacceptable addition to the health care reform bill that, if enacted, would result in women losing health...

Who is a Jew? British case raises question

STLtoday.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

LONDON — The questions before the judges in Courtroom No. 1 of Britain’s Supreme Court were as ancient and as complex as Judaism itself. Who is a Jew? And who gets to decide? On the surface, the court was considering a straightforward challenge to the admissions policy of a Jewish high school in London. But the case, in which arguments concluded Oct. 30, has potential repercussions for...

• Jewish school in London is accused of bias - Seattle Times
• Who Is a Jew? Court Ruling in Britain Raises Question - New York Times

The Origin of Anti-Semitism

Anchor Rising (Free subscription) | yesterday

Perhaps it's peculiar, given my Jewish heritage, or perhaps it's entirely predictable, given my progression from atheism to Catholicism, but I'd never thought to explain anti-Semitism in the way that Meir Soloveichik describes here: As Stanley Hauerwas notes, Berkovits fails...

Religious affiliation by ethnicity in the United States

The Audacious Epigone (Free subscription) | yesterday

I'm regularly vexed by my inability to seamlessly rehash empirical data in conversation when I'd assumed it would easily stick as I came upon it for the first time. It's hardly a frustration unique to me, and the conventional explanation that it takes ingesting information three times to internalize it seems to be generally accurate in my experience. Sometimes, though, I am surprised by the inaccuracy...

2012 Levels the Sistine Chapel but Spares the Kaaba

Verum Serum (Free subscription) | yesterday

Bill Donohoe writes about an admission by director Roland Emmerich: When we got word recently that the movie “2012” depicts the Vatican being blown up, along with the famous statue from Rio, Christ the Redeemer, we were unmoved. Why? Because this occurs during the end of the world in a massive destruction. This kind of sensationalism, [...]

• Weakling Hollywood Director Blows Up Catholic Landmarks, Spares Muslim Holy Sites in “2012″ - Gateway Pundit

Weekend Bonus: a response to John Mark Reynolds

Pyromaniacs (Free subscription) | yesterday

by Frank Turk Welcome readers from First Things: Evangel . This may look like a ploy to draw readers from there over here in order to troll for hits, but since we don't do any advertising here I think that's not a very charitable thing to say. Full-blown, full-contact, full-body contact Catholic apologetics have broken out in the comments of one of my posts (it was inevitable, I am sure), and what...

Italy Gov’t to Appeal Ruling on Classroom Crucifixes

In The Faith (Free subscription) | yesterday

The Italian government will appeal a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights, which decided this past week that crucifixes cannot be hung in school classrooms.

Counting sheep or praying the Rosary . . .

A Miscellany of Musings (Free subscription) | yesterday

I haven't been sleeping very well recently - too many things on my mind and the PF is away on business. I know I'm not the only one but it was an odd coincidence to discover that a fellow sufferer at the moment was also someone whose blog I've only recently come across thanks to a link from Catholic and Loving It ! Saintos is a Catholic cartoon blogger. Go on over and have a look at Drawn to Catholicism...

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