cognitive dissonance –noun Psychology. anxiety that results from simultaneously holding contradictory or otherwise incompatible attitudes, beliefs, or the like Professional progressive Fr. Richard McBrien in his most recent column displays a very…
To help the Los Angeles archdiocese pay off the “crippling debt” accrued from sexual abuse settlements, Cardinal Roger Mahony will soon announce that his new $200 million Cathedral of Our Lady of…
Doctors Deciding Who Dies—Are You On the List? Church Guilty of “Gender Apartheid”—Yes, this WomynPriest is called the Rosa Parks of the Church The Case For Chaos—When it comes to communion, I…
In case of an epidemic or some other kind of disaster, a group of doctors know that some patients needing lifesaving care won’t get it, says the AP. The dilemma will be…
Catholic blogs take issue with many different things. CMR is no exception. Most of the time, we take exception with patently preposterous, the harebrained, or heretical. Less frequently (amounting to never) do…
On May 29, Monica Kilburn Smith of Calgary will be welcomed into the small worldwide community of female Roman Catholic priests, according to the Calgary Herald. Hooray, says the editorialist, I mean…
Christian Minister: We Don’t Need Jesus—Jesus was a “Middle Eastern peasant with a few charismatic gifts and a great posthumous marketing team.” Fr. McCartney on the Giuliani Debacle—Imagine you go to the…
Slippery slope arguments tend to not to be a convincing line of debate. However sometimes they are right on. Let’s go back a few centuries an imagine a time just after the…
By Father John McCartney Reprinted from the Pastor’s Page of St. Matthew Church in Dix Hills NY A Catholic news story has developed over the last several days which merits our attention.…
Further evidence that our culture is going to hell in a hand-basket, some colleges are now allowing coed dorm rooms. [AP] In the prim 1950s, college dorms were off-limits to members of…
