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A transgender person is suing a Catholic hospital, claiming medical officials blocked her from getting surgery there because she had a sex-change operation, according to San Jose Mercury News. Fifty-seven-year-old Charlene Hastings already had one major surgery she needed to… Continue Reading →
International – Malaysia has ruled that a Catholic newspaper cannot use the word Allah. The move deepens fears the government is trying too hard to please the more extremist sections of its Muslim majority at the expense of other religions…. Continue Reading →
This is a fascinating story about two brothers, one a quiet boy and another rebellious boy who was involved in gangs. One became a priest and the other a millionaire creator of toys glorifying gang life. But their story doesn’t… Continue Reading →
It is time for me to guess at the happenings and non-happenings that will or will not happen in 2008. Any and all such predictions are based solely on my innate ability to analyze current trends coupled with the better… Continue Reading →
Much has been made about the rapprochement between Catholics and the Orthodox following the Catholic-Orthodox meeting last month in Ravenna that agreed the Pope was the leading prelate of Christianity. Of course, this is just the beginning of the many… Continue Reading →
As a young man I struggled with the faith and through my own sheer idiocy lost it almost altogether for a while. I remember with some shame those times I spoke out against the faith. I read atheistic philosophy. I… Continue Reading →
Louisiana politics were always ugly. They just got uglier. A Democratic Party ad is accusing Republican gubernatorial candidate Bobby Jindal (who is Catholic) of calling Protestants “scandalous, depraved, selfish and heretical.” Of course, this is not what Jindal, who wrote… Continue Reading →
Picture the scene: The pealing bells of distance churches in a bucolic Dutch town which has been going on for centuries. There’s something beautiful about how the sound of bells calls out to something spiritual inside of us. Cut to… Continue Reading →
An attorney has filed a motion for recusal against a U.S. District Judge William Zloch because he’s…well…just too Catholic, according to Law.com. In a 110-page motion for to have the judge removed from two cases, Florida attorney Loring Spolter cited… Continue Reading →
Over the next few weeks I’ll be posting some examples of work by some of the artists and architects leading the renewal of the liturgical arts. Contrary to popular belief, there is a lot of good work being done out… Continue Reading →