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 | Friday, September 23, 2010
| The Catholic Tea Kettle Continues to Boil
| Deal W. Hudson
Over the past two weeks, I've had extensive discussions with a wide group of Catholic leaders about the state of the Church in the United States. The frustration and impatience among Catholics, which I discussed last February in "Is It Time for a Catholic Tea Party?," continue to grow.The occasions for this discussion were the Catholic Leadership Conference held in Philadelphia earlier this month, immediately followed by the Faith & Freedom Coalition Conference and the 15th Annual Partnership Dinner benefiting InsideCatholic, both held in Washington, D.C.
Read more Apply by October 20th and you could receive an extra $3,000 per year in scholarship money from Belmont Abbey College. $23,000 per year is available for Honors Fellowships alone! The Pope in Great Britain | Joanna Bogle
A pope affirming the glories of British Parliamentary democracy, and urging the nation not to marginalize Christianity or neglect the crucial role it plays in establishing human rights and freedoms. Young people kneeling in silent prayer -- some 80,000 of them -- in a candlelit vigil in central London. Misty rain on an English hillside, and thousands of people travelling through the night to gather there to honor the memory of a great Englishman and hear him pronounced "Blessed" by the Church. A gentle, German-accented voice honoring the heroes of the Battle of Britain, proclaiming the horror of Nazism and the valor of Britain's stance in World War II. The visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Britain brought so many extraordinary, magnificent, unforgettable moments. It was a time of grace, a time of healing, a time for an unprecedented gathering together of British history, a people somehow making peace with its past. Read more The Bishop and the Conference
| Bishop Robert F. Vasa, D.D.
We are all familiar with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), and I suspect most of us accept it as a fact of life. I further suspect that most of us have never really considered the who, what, why, or wherefore of such conferences in the Church. This does not mean that the Church has not given serious consideration to the topic. The concept was not new to the Church in 1965, when the Vatican Council issued Christus Dominus, the Decree on the Pastoral Office of Bishops in the Church. Read more They don't build churches like they used to... or do they? Fun with stereotypes.
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