Thursday, April 3, 2014

Money Talks: More Critical Commentary on the Recent Testimony of Cardinal Pell in Australia

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As a footnote to what I just wrote about the patent Catholic connection to yesterday's Supreme Court McCutcheon  ruling, which i...

The Supremes' McCutcheon Decision: Surprise! White Men Who Own Things Count Most of All!

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What was I saying just the other day about how money talks? Especially for the U.S. Supremes, a majority of whom are themselves (whit...
Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Mother Jones Article about Hobby Lobby Not Gotcha Journalism — It's Just Journalism

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At Commonweal , Grant Gallicho responds to Margaret O'Brien Steinfels's claim  that the Mother Jones   article about Hobby ...

Quote of Day: Vatican Punishes Gender Equality More Swiftly Than Sexual Abuse

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Patricia Miller on the alacrity with which the Vatican moves to punish priests supporting gender equality, as contrasted with the sn...

Wrinkle in Hobby Lobby Case: Company's Retirement Plan Heavily Invested in Manufacture of Contraceptive Pills, IUDs, and Abortifacients

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With the case Sibelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores , the Green family who own the Hobby Lobby chain have brought to the highest court in th...

A Review of David I. Kertzer's The Pope and Mussolini by Father Emmett Coyne

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I'm pleased to share with readers the following review of David I. Kertzer's book The P ope and Mussolini:  The Secret Histor...
Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: They Have Plenty to Say about Their Purity But Little to Say That's Good News for Gays

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Ryan, writing in response to my posting yesterday about Brother Dominic Mary Verner's musings about why the gays don't alwa...