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Same-sex Marriage Initiatives — Why Should Catholics Care?
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- Saturday, October 25th, 2008
- Valerie Schmalz
San Diego Auxiliary Bishop Salvatore J. Cordileone was at the forefront of efforts for a campaign to put a state constitutional amendment affirming traditional marriage on California’s Nov. 4 ballot. That initiative — known as Proposition 8 — was approved… Read More
The Poor Clare Author Who Energized the Church
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- Saturday, June 24th, 2006
- Valerie Schmalz
The cloistered life is an enigma to most of us — we admire those nuns behind the grille, hidden within the monasteries we pass in our travels, if we are so lucky to have a monastery near us. But what… Read More
Walking for Life Takes Courage and Faith
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- Friday, January 20th, 2006
- Valerie Schmalz
My four boys will be walking under a feminist flag this Saturday — a pro-life feminist flag — along San Francisco’s waterfront. They will meet with — if last year was any indicator — lots of nasty demonstrators along the… Read More
The Importance of Apologetics
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- Monday, October 3rd, 2005
- Valerie Schmalz
Boston College professor of philosophy Peter Kreeft, a Protestant convert to Catholicism, says apologetics remains in disrepute in some circles. “Traditional apologetics has a bad reputation among modernists, who hate tradition and don’t believe in the supernatural; among postmodernists, who… Read More
Bishop in the Desert: An Interview with Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of Phoenix
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- Friday, September 9th, 2005
- Valerie Schmalz
How to Hit the Ground Running
In April 2004 Bishop Olmsted ordered nine priests and one religious brother to remove their names from a document written and promulgated by an activist organization for homosexual clergy, No Longer Silent: Clergy for… Read More
Three Approaches to Abortion: A Book Review
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- Friday, June 18th, 2004
- Valerie Schmalz
My great uncle made a special request at his birthday party recently. Can we not talk about abortion? Saddled with a couple of nieces he loves dearly but who won’t shut up, he asked for a brief respite after several… Read More
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Italians have a great devotion to St Joseph, and the dishes they prepare to celebrate the feast day inevitably have a cute reference to him. Just before you serve…
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