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KY Bishops Take Different Stances on Controversy As some of you may know, we Maniacs live in the Archdiocese of Louisville. We are about an hour or so from Lexington. Bishop Gainer in Lexington has come down on the “don’t receive” side of this debate. While he has not out and out said to deny…

Anglicans have always liked to contend that they are the 3rd branch of Catholicism, the other two being Roman and the Orthodox churches. There are two problems with this idea. The first is that there cannot be branches of a single Church not acting in union with the other two. Can three separate branches of…

… You’re not really surprised are you? The Froggy Parliament is considering a bill that would criminalize sexist and homophobic speech. And Teddy has apparently introduced a bill in the Senate that is similar. Now I know Teddy isn’t exactly a “good” Catholic… Nor is France exactly the defender of the faith it was 500…

Steve K. is the author of Sex and the Sacred City, a great little book on John Paul’s Theology of the Body. He is the pre-eminent expert I know of on issues of sexuality, marriage and the Church. He has written an awesome blog entry about how Christians basically lost the wars against divorce, abortion,…

Seems like there’s a lot going on this week. Stuff to comment on and talk about. I’m surprised the rest of the Maniacs haven’t picked up the slack this week. Especially Guvnur. 🙂 Just off the top of my head… A priest in Canada is running for office and seems to be pro-abort. His statements…

Hey everyone… Just an FYI that I am on site on a contract and will have precious little time for a lot of blogging over the next 6 weeks or so. I’ll probably try to catch up on weekends if nothing else. So that means that Deacon, Guvnur and HeathenBoy must take up the slack…

Been surfing the many blogs out there and man… it’s a jungle out there! Found the banal where some 20-something nobody just whines about how nothing happened today… And you expect me to read your blog when that’s the gist of most of your posts? Found the politically whacked out left-wingers though not so many…

The Deacon and I discussed this last week on the way back from the Abbey at Gethsemani… He made the leap a while back and I am just now coming to this position. I am no longer for the death penalty in the United States. For those that know me well, this is a major…

Catholic World News reports that the Cardinal has sent a private letter to all US Bishops saying that… Catholics who are “living in grave sin” or who “reject the doctrine of the Church,” should abstain from the Eucharist. Scanning the article I couldn’t find anything that specifically said Cardinal Ratzinger told them to deny Communion…

OK, everyone… I expect all of you to be glued to your television sets tonight at 9pm Eastern. That’s tipoff time for Game 5 of the NBA Finals. The smell of blood is in the air. The Lakers are ripe for picking… Personally, I expect the deathblow tonight to be delivered methodically, deliberately and overwhelmingly.…