The Cardinal Newman Society reports: Half of the 26 Catholic activists, scholars and theologians who signed a statement publicly supporting President Barack Obama’s selection of pro-abortion Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius as Secretary of Health and Human Services are professors employed by Cath...

(Hat tip: Mirror of Justice ) Terry Mattingly has an excellent post at GetReligion on how the late Tim Russert's Catholicism animated his job as newsman: ... Before his death, I had already noted that Russert was scheduled to give a June 27 lecture for the Catholic Common Ground Initiative, to be he...

Deacon Keith Fournier editorializes at Catholic Online on the Catholic candidacy of Joe Schriner: ... So far, I only know who I cannot vote for. I will not vote for any candidate who fails to hear the cry of the poor coming from our youngest neighbors, children in the first home of the whole human r...

“…it would be hard to find anyone who was more truly a man for all seasons and all men…� ~ Erasmus, 1521 22 June, the feast day of St. Thomas More, martyr and patron of lawyers, civil servants, politicians, statesmen, "difficult marriages" (and this blog), falls on a Sunday this year. Theref...

(Hat tip: Feddie) And to think I thought things were improving in my former home Diocese of Richmond: Federal authorities are investigating the actions of a Catholic charity in Richmond which helped a 16-year-old Guatemalan girl to receive an abortion in January, in possible violation of Virginia la...

The Catholic League's Bill Donohue wants to know: Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments today on Sen. Barack Obama’s Catholic National Advisory Council: “On May 2, I issued a news release calling on Sen. Obama to dissolve his Catholic National Advisory Council. My principal reason for ...

AP Photo Another Gov. Jindal as VP story from The Wall Street Journal : BATON ROUGE, La. -- Before Sen. John McCain could begin speaking at a town-hall meeting here Wednesday, he first had to quiet a crowd gone wild for Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal -- a politician who not long ago would have been in...

... at the Norwalk Catholic School Early Childhood Center ... In Jamie's Kindergarten classroom Jamie dressed for the occasion Our Lady's crown in front of the altar in St. Mary Parish Jamie's class sings after Communion Jamie's teacher Miss Smith hands him Our Lady's crown prior to the Recessional ...

Mark Shea writes at InsideCatholic : ... Therefore, Mia Farrow is a "devout Catholic." Why? Because she's Catholic. James Carroll , who has made an entire career of bashing the Church as the author of the Holocaust and demanding she recant her most fundamental beliefs about Christ? He's a "devout Ca...

How Nondiscrimination Becomes Discrimination ... A recent state statute proposed in Colorado strikes directly at the heart of the free exercise of religion. The statute, called House Bill (HB) 1080, would prohibit “discrimination� in employment in institutions that receive government funding, an...