Bishop Suffragan Paul Lambert of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas kindly sent along this Q&A he received, done with the Rev. Dr. R. William Franklin. It sheds some light on the Vatican's overture toward conservative Anglicans....
But there's a real breakdown among Catholics who go to church a lot, and those who don't. Details here....
It's the latest in a series of surveys by the Pew Center on Religion and Public Life. One item that caught my attention was the reasoning offered by now-former Catholics for why they left. Since Catholics are by far the...
"Confession has become the one sacrament Catholics feel free to skip. We'll get married in church, we'll be buried from church and we'll take communion at Mass. But regularly confessing sins seem to be a part of fewer and...
A comprehensive effort is underway to enlist Catholics in "creation care." Details below:...
Here's a press release with details:...
As just about everyone knows, while in Africa last week, Pope Benedict XVI asserted that condoms not only won't stop that continent's tragic AIDS epidemic, but "can even increase the problem." At least one medical expert, an AIDS researcher from...
The press release from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops includes a Web address for the full report....
We're a little late discovering the dustup at Baylor University over an editorial (and a cartoon) in The Lariat, the student newspaper, about the Catholic practice of indulgences. Professor Francis Beckwith, a Catholic, wrote a letter in response. The...
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