I don’t always see eye-to-eye with Abe Foxman of the Jewish Antidefamation League (ADL), but I want to give him his props on a recent statement issued by the ADL. According to a press release, issued December 7th, The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has called on the Chief Rabbinate of Israel to publicly denounce the repulsive decades-old practice by [...]
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That’s a very good question, isn’t it? How many times during the course of various sex abuse news cycles have we read about lawyers using various legal maneuvers to try to keep official, confidential documents pertaining to priestly sex abuses cases out of the hands of courts? These instances only reveal what scoundrels both the [...]
On December 8th, the feast of the Immaculate Conception, Archbishop Charles Chaput, the newly-installed archbishop of Philadelphia, released a pastoral letter to the faithful of his archdiocese. It will be read this weekend at Masses, even as Archbishop Chaput is returning home from his ad limina visit to Rome. A copy of the letter was [...]
Back on November 10, well-respected Vaticanista Sandro Magister reported: Precisely when the G20 summit in Cannes was coming to its weak and uncertain conclusion, on that same Friday, November 4 at the Vatican, a smaller summit convened in the secretariat of state was doing damage control on the latest of many moments of confusion in [...]
According to FOX News: Irish songstress Sinead O’Connor came under fire a few weeks ago when she took to Twitter to announce that she would perform a “bloodbath” if Pope Benedict XVI visited Ireland. “Young people of Ireland I love u’ said Sinead as she pulled the [f**king] trigger,” the artist tweeted, referencing the famous [...]
In an article headlined Obama: God backs jobs plan, AFP is reporting: The president rebuked the House of Representatives for passing a bill reaffirming the US motto “In God We Trust” rather than getting to work on his stalled $447 billion jobs program. “That’s not putting people back to work. I trust in God, but [...]
That’s what could happen on a legal theory articulated by the Obama administration—and the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court were quick to pick up on the fact. The case at hand involves a Lutheran minister, but the principles potentially apply to the issue of women’s ordination in the Catholic Church. Specifically, the case involves [...]
You know that thuggish contraception policy that President Obama’s administration recently proposed as part of their implementation of ObamaCare? The one whose public comment period ended last Friday? The one that the U.S. bishops were frantically trying to get Catholics to contact Health and Human Services and oppose? The one that the bishops’ attorneys said [...]
