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Let's stipulate that Cardinal Bernard Francis Law was the worst bishop of Boston in the 209 years of the diocese. The clergy sex abuse scandal mangled the lives of children and their families, shook the faith of devoted Catholics, prevented would-be converts from joining, cost an amazing amount
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Cardinal Bernard Law, the long-serving archbishop of Boston who resigned under pressure during the height of the clergy-sex-abuse scandal, is "facing his final illness" at a hospital in Rome, according to a well-connected Vatican journalist. Rocco Palma, who runs the web site Whispers in the Loggia, reported that
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Dear Left Wing Grinches, This is why we just can't take you seriously.
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There's a chill in our drafty house as I write this, sitting next to our fireplace. No logs are burning because that would be a mess, with chocolate melting over the shoes and the hearth. It is early morning, December 6, the feast day of St. Nicholas, the
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Three Catholic thinkers are starting small but aiming high: the re-evangelization of New England along Christian principles. The scholars kicked off the Center for the Restoration of Christian Culture with a press conference and social gathering Monday night at Mercy Hall in Nashua, New Hampshire, a building owned by Thomas
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The recent tax reform proposals by the Republican Congress and a recent public Torah reading made me think about tithing. In one of the first verses in Saturday's Torah reading Vayeitzei ((Jacob) departed from …), the Jewish Patriarch Jacob promises G-d a tenth of everything G-d gives him after
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There are few more inspiring actions than witnessing a venerable institution alter course after having taken a contrary public position. In politics, such a change is frequently dismissed as a "climb down." In religion, Catholics and others view it as a sublime example of courage and wisdom — if
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Roman Catholic churches in central Massachusetts are now allowed to host signature gatherers trying to put a referendum on the ballot that would enable the state to stop public funding of abortion. Bishop Robert J. McManus, bishop of Worcester, released a letter Monday similar to a statement that Cardinal Sean
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