Category: Blithe Spirit
The good and the bad, emphasis on Trib and Sun-Times
McCarrick report: Questions needing answers | National Catholic Reporter
But the big one lurking behind it all is whether the answers will contain anything to besmirch the reputation of the one or those giving them. This is why it’s taking so long.
McCarrick, Wuerl scandals in Washington push donations to the Catholic Church way down
The archdiocese, which includes the District and its Maryland suburbs, received $10,350,027 for the 2019 Annual Appeal, compared with the 2018 total of $14,192,188, which is about where it had hovered since 2013. The drive was called “the Cardinal’s Appeal” until a year ago, when officials rebranded it to play down the image of high-ranking clerics.
Different story next door:
The annual fundraising drive in the nearby Arlington Diocese is still named the Bishop’s Appeal, and it took in $17,202,000 in 2019, down from $18,400,000 in 2018 but up from previous years. The diocese, which covers northeastern Virginia, has about one-third fewer Catholics than the Archdiocese of Washington.
The sordid tale plays out . . .
Calling Francis out plus chewing him up and spitting out
5 Times Barack Obama Protected His Allies from Justice and Democrats Didn’t Care
The neighborhood scold, calling the cops about kids playing softball in the alley — Pelosi’s new investigation
Pope rejects push to ordain married men
Following lot of sound and fury from synodical cowboys, now this. Francis has quite a show on his hands. As a CEO, he’d have a board asking many qq.
Pope Francis, in one of the most significant decisions of his papacy, has dismissed a proposal to allow some married men to be ordained in the Amazon region to ease an acute scarcity of priests.
‘Speak English,’ said the Postal worker, trying to serve the customer
Impatient too, I bet. Like me trying to understand the dental assistant with fingers in my mouth. Frustrating.
Where the elite meet to shut up: Colleges vs. free speech
The 10 worst, via Dollars & Crosses
Pope Francis is in favor of education, Vatican news site reports
That’s a relief.
That is, where is the opposite argued?
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via Pope: ‘Education concerns the future of humanity’ – Vatican News