2016-09-30T17:34:56-04:00

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Rocco broke the news this morning, and now there’s more: In a surprise move, B16 has accepted the early resignation of LA Auxiliary Gabino Zavala, who turned 60 last September. While rumors of unspecified Vatican concerns over Zavala have circulated for some time, and have intensified over recent months, Catholic News Servicereported this morning via Twitter that the bishop’s resignation was accepted after he confessed to having fathered two children. In a letter to the Los Angeles church, Archbishop José Gomez wrote that the auxiliary... Read more

2016-09-30T17:34:57-04:00

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“God has given us this great country to allow His people to be free. I offer a public thanks to God.” — Rick Santorum, after his dramatic thisclose second place finish in Iowa last night. Read more. And watch video of the speech below. Read more

2016-09-30T17:34:57-04:00

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From the Catholic Transcript, in Hartford, Connecticut: Men and women living with same sex attraction often feel neglected and despised — by their families, their heterosexual friends, even the Catholic Church. Deacon Robert Pallotti, Director of the Office of the Permanent Diaconate of the Archdiocese of Hartford, wants to do something about that. Archbishop Henry J. Mansell has given Deacon Pallotti’s office the go-ahead to start a chapter of Courage, an apostolate of the Catholic Church that ministers to persons... Read more

2016-09-30T17:34:57-04:00

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Canon lawyer Ed Peters has weighed in on the problems between Michael Voris’ Real Catholic TV and the Archdiocese of Detroit: The first thing to understand about the dispute between the Archdiocese of Detroit and Michael Voris and/or RealCatholicTV is that the dispute turns essentially on canon law. As a canonical dispute, it will not be decided by seeing who musters more or louder supporters in the blogosphere; it will be decided by recognizing what Church law says about such... Read more

2016-09-30T17:34:57-04:00

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2016-09-30T17:34:57-04:00

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Here once again is the annual must-read for the first days of January: Dave Barry’s summary of  The Year That Was. Among the things he notes for 2011: This was a year in which journalism was pretty much completely replaced by tweeting. It was a year in which a significant earthquake struck Washington, yet failed to destroy a single federal agency. It was a year in which the nation was subjected to a seemingly endless barrage of highly publicized pronouncements from Charlie Sheen, a... Read more

2016-09-30T17:34:57-04:00

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See what you think.  From Te Deum laudamus: I have never been a proponent of panic, of conspiracy, or of the imminent consummation of the world. The reasons for my reticence to advocate such positions are reasonableness and confidence in Divine Providence. It’s clear however that we, as a people, seem to be ever more capable of outdoing ourselves in wickedness. For those who delight in being at peace it’s not a good time to be living. There’s altogether too... Read more

2016-09-30T17:34:57-04:00

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From the AP comes this remarkable story of enduring love: For most of her 100 years, Minka Disbrow tried to find out what became of the precious baby girl she gave up for adoption after being raped as a teen. She hoped, but never imagined, she’d see her Betty Jane again. The cruel act of violence bore in Disbrow an enduring love for the child. She kept a black and white photograph of the baby bundled in blankets and tucked inside a basket. It was the... Read more

2016-09-30T17:34:57-04:00

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Details: Jerzy Kluger, a Polish-born Jew who was a lifetime friend and childhood playmate of the late Pope John Paul II and who lost much of his family to Nazi death camps, has died in a Rome clinic, his widow said Monday. He was 90. Irene Kluger told The Associated Press that her husband died on Dec. 31 after suffering from Alzheimer’s disease for three years and was buried Monday. The couple lived in Rome for decades, but at John... Read more

2016-09-30T17:34:58-04:00

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It was sparked by an attack by liberal commenter Alan Colmes on Fox.  Details: During the question and answer portion of Rick Santorum’s second to last campaign event of the day, a voter brought up a painful memory from the former Pennsylvania senator’s past. At a Pizza Ranch restaurant in Newton, Iowa,  a member of the audience asked Santorum to react to a controversial attack leveled by liberal Fox News contributor Alan Colmes, who called the Santorum family’s approach to... Read more

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