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Memorial Day
… Michael Sean Winters … Memorial Day brings a flood of memories. Our little town always has a parade down Main Street, with floats on the back …
Bishops' defense of marriage misses the mark going after same-sex marriage
… of marriage.” That, as Jimmy Breslin once wrote, is like “blaming the Johnstown (Pa.) flood on a leaky toilet in Altoona.” First of all, gay marriages, according to Fox News — hardly …
Global community connects the dots about climate change
… Other events included: In the African country of Burundi, students gathered with victims of a flood that destroyed more than 500 homes in March. In the Marshall Islands of the Pacific, a team …
Chaput removes five Philadelphia priests from ministry
… 25, before an investigation concluded. Fr. Philip Barr, Fr. Michael Chapman and Msgr. Michael Flood will all return to active ministry. It is unknown whether the three will return to their …
Methodists uphold policy that calls homosexuality 'incompatible with Christian teaching'
… and suicide will stop." After the proposals were defeated on Thursday, gay rights activists flooded the assembly floor and disrupted the session by singing the hymn "What Does the Lord …
Time for Some Good News: The Catholic Academy
… metaphors, it is also the case that too many conservative thinkers decry the post-Vatican II flood of foolishness, without thinking that perhaps those who built the pre-Vatican II dam …
Pro-Tutu petitions flood Gonzaga
SPOKANE, Wash., -- After almost 700 people tried to push Gonzaga University to rescind its commencement speaker's invitation to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, supporters of the anti-apartheid hero responded with 11,000 signatures of their own. Opponents claim the Jesuit school had lost sight of its Catholic values by inviting the former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, to speak at next month's…
GOP in a jam when it comes to Latino vote
… for generations. “One thing that America’s Catholic bishops should consider is that the flood of Catholic Latinos that will soon dominate the Democratic Party in places like Arizona and …
Early spring brings back climate change fears
… the houses where 4 million Americans live on the coasts confront increased risk of storm-surge flooding by midcentury because of warming oceans. Almost all scientists and related professionals …
Justice Scalia, the health care debate and Moral Theology 101
… What happened to our duty to care for one another and share burdens? Now, before we have a flood of responses on this, I am well aware that these Supreme Court arguments were supposed to …
New growth from an old church
… for 250 years, foreigners in their own land. As millions of immigrants arriving from Europe flooded into the Southwest, Mexican-American citizens were exploited and discriminated against. …