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Thursday, July 25, 2013

Normal service

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Will be resumed shortly.   Have been distracted by urgent business.

Pope hugs an Iman

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and concelebrates in the round- the ultimate in self-referential liturgy, which ironically excludes rather  than includes the Faithful.


Sunday, June 30, 2013

Send off the dancing girls!

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Prepare for release of shocking documents says Archbishop

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In a major turning point in its nearly 3-year-old bankruptcy, the Archdiocese of Milwaukee on Monday is scheduled to make public thousands of pages of documents detailing the sexual abuse of minors by priests going back decades, and what church leaders did — and did not do — in response.

The records will contain parts of 42 priests' personnel files as well as depositions of former Archbishop Timothy Dolan, now cardinal of New York; retired Archbishop Rembert Weakland; retired Bishop Richard Sklba; and now-defrocked priest Daniel Budzynski.

Most of the information, which is being released as part of an agreement in the archdiocese's bankruptcy proceedings, has never been seen publicly.

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Rosary Workout! Shocking confusion of sacred and profane

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