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Catholic Tipping Point Tour: Schuller in Los Angeles: Decrying ‘Dictatorship’ of Opus Dei and The Like

LOS ANGELES – It was 7:15 PM Friday. Seats in the dimly lit auditorium adjacent to the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Pasadena, Ca., were beginning…

Pope of The People Has Eyes on Reform

VATICAN CITY – He wades into crowds without hesitation, shaking hands and kissing babies. He cracks jokes and delivers unscripted remarks, to the occasional dismay…

Fifteen Days in Rome: How the Pope Was Picked

Though the public paid little notice to Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, his name had made the rounds among a small group of cardinals who had…

Seasons Songs

Spring comes in a’dancing A tender maid and sky. She sings of earth’s awakening from winter’s lullabye. Summer is a wanton lass, Her mouth a…

Passings

JONES, Phyllis Philomene. It is with great sadness and heavy hearts, we announce that our beautiful Mother, Grannie, Sister and Aunt, Phyllis Philomene Jones died…

Don’t Let Spring Turn to Winter – Power and Poverty

When Jorge Bergoglio took the name Francis as Pope, he did something no pontiff has done before: placed himself in the tradition of the…

Francis of Rome and the Ecology of Saint Francis of Assisi

It cannot be for nothing that a Pope takes the name of Francis. Besides being a reference to another model of being Church, closer…

Ted Schmidt’s Book “Never Neutral: A Teaching Life”

Never Neutral: A Teaching Life by Ted Schmidt, publisher Tony Curcio, Toronto, 2013, 343 pp. is available from The Book Band $21.95.

The Sexual-political Problem of the New Pope

To me, it seems very significant that we have a new pope exactly half way through the term of Vatican II. The very way…

BOOKS: The Trial of Pope Benedict by Daniel Gawthrop

New book on the Papacy and Vatican to publish on June 25, 2013 P-ISBN: 978-1-55152-527-3 $15.95 list – 304 pages Publisher – Arsenal Pulp Press…