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This just in: a forthcoming edition of the Catholic catechism lists sins never pondered by Moses. Driving a car or piloting a commercial jet while intoxicated, for example. Cheating on your taxes. Dealing drugs. Cooking the company books and committing other types of business fraud. Bill Clinton, take note: in...
-- While Catholic tradition says females cannot be priests, congregations could not operate without women, who do everything from catechism teaching to worship planning to pastoral counseling. Half of U.S. parishes hire salaried laity or members of religious orders to fill ministerial roles, and fully 85% of them (an estimated 17...
The Columbus honored in Chicago bore little resemblance to the medieval wizard of Spain's inquisitorial empire. That ancient mariner was now conceived to be a champion of Anglo-Saxon (Protestant) values. The Spaniards had taken guns and the catechism abroad. America, said Mark Twain, took guns and the King...
Bush has never been a true believer in SDI, although as Vice President he paid lip service to the program as part of the catechism of the Reagan Administration. SDI is still sacred to the Republican hard right, so Bush lets his Vice President, Dan Quayle, champion the latest Star...
Reflecting the influence of feminism, the report sharply criticizes Rome's relentless use of non-inclusive nouns and pronouns (for instance, in referring to believers as "men" or "sons"), which the American bishops have been trying to banish from their own documents. One problematic passage in the Catechism, though it...