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Tuesday, August 31 2010
This month marks the 60th anniversary of the papal encyclical "Humani Generis," that laid out the Catholic Church's official relationship with Darwinian evolution. The pastoral letter, issued on Aug. 12, 1950 by Pope Pius XII, confirmed, in broad terms, that there is no intrinsic conflict between Christianity and the scientific theory of evolution. Considering that this was three years before the nature of DNA was even discovered, the pope's foresight in deciding to address the topic is remarkable.
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Wednesday, June 16 2010
The current economic crisis will not have been in vain if the world is
reminded that grass roots initiative can triumph even over seemingly
overwhelming adversity. In the aftermath of the devastation of the
Basque region of Spain in the Spanish Civil War, a young priest, Don
Jose Maria Arizmendiarrieta, himself only recently released from
concentration camp confinement and narrowly spared imminent execution,
was sent by his bishop in 1941 to the small steel industry town of
Mondragon. - Dr Race Mathews @ The Distributist Review
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Tuesday, June 15 2010
What if the nation-state was not the cure but the cause of the wars that
we term "religious"? In other words, what if all that we "know" isn't
so, is in fact a myth used to justify the nation-state and marginalize
certain kinds of discourse, most particularly "religious" discourse?
This is the theme of William T. Cavanaugh's The Myth of Religious
Violence. - John Medaille @ The Distributist Review
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Monday, June 14 2010
The overnight implosion of her sixty-year career is a metaphor for the
changing media landscape. Reporter Helen Thomas had been a fixture of
the White House Press Corps since the Eisenhower administration. In recent years, however, Thomas was also derided by her colleagues as a
hostile and distracting presence in the briefing room. - Rabbi Simcha Weinstein and Monica Rozenfeld @ Busted Halo
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Friday, June 11 2010
"Nobody messes with Father Vien. He tends
to get what he wants."So said President Obama in a speech on May 24
after being introduced,
just moments earlier, by Reverend Vien Nguyen, pastor of the Mary Queen
Viet Nam Church in eastern New Orleans. - Brentin Mock @ Religion
Dispatches
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Thursday, June 10 2010
Busted Halo's Fr. Dave Dwyer, CSP, and Fr. Larry Rice, CSP, discuss the Christian
origins of modern graduation ceremonies. - The Editors @ Busted Halo
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Wednesday, June 09 2010
There is an island in the East River, within view of the glittering
Manhattan skyline, where the homeless and indigent are buried: an island
of the dead. There, amid tall grasses and the calls of seagulls, the
poorest New Yorkers - those who had families that couldn't afford to
bury them or who had no family, those who died anonymous and homeless on
city streets, and those whose bodies were never claimed from the city
morgue - find their final repose. - Eileen Markey @ Busted Halo
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Tuesday, June 08 2010
Stockton Bishop Stephen Blaire asked all parish priests in the diocese to read a statement regarding defrocked pedophile priest Oliver
O'Grady following press reports concerning Blaire's decision to
provide O'Grady an annuity worth $94,560 in exchange for O'Grady
voluntarily leaving the priesthood before he was released from prison in
2000. - Bishop Stephen Blaire @ Modesto Bee
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Monday, June 07 2010
CathNewsUSA partner Busted Halo is surveying its readers. "We need you to tell us how we're doing," the editors say. - Survey @ Busted Halo
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Friday, June 04 2010
When Wichita Bishop Eugene Gerber delivered his homily at the 1999
ordination of his new coadjutor bishop, Thomas J. Olmsted, he addressed
prescient words directly to Olmsted. The crucifixion-resurrection paradoxes of Christianity, he said, "will
both raise you up and weigh you down in ways you have never experienced." - Bill Taddeus @ NCR Online
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