Tom RobertsNational Catholic ReporterNovember 26 2008Calling the impending excommunication of Maryknoll Fr. Roy Bourgeois “the true scandal,” the Boston-based lay group, Voice of the Faithful, has written the pope’s representative in the United States asking that the Vatican reconsider the case.Bourgeois, best known for his peace activism and as a critic of U.S. military policy in Latin America, concelebrated at the ordination of a woman in August in Kentucky. He was notified in a letter ...

Ask yourselves please, what would Jesus Do?I really wish I could embed video from The GuardianDuring the Feast of the Holy Cross no less, Monks from the Armenian and Greek Orthodox branches of the Christian religion started a brawl in the church of the Holy Sepulchre. You know... the place on top of the place where Jesus was buried. I'm too angry about this to comment any further you can see for yourself by clicking ...

David SwansonAfter Downing StreetOctober 24 2008Congressman Brad Sherman said on the floor of the House that a few Congress members had been told there would be martial law in America if they did not pass Paulson's Plunder. Here's video. Sherman has not retracted that statement. He has not suggested that the Congress members who had told him that didn't really tell him that, or weren't honest, or didn't take it seriously, or that it didn't ...

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