Regional digest.
COLUMN: Regional digest Woman charged in husband's stabbing WORCESTER - A woman allegedly stabbed her husband early yesterday morning, according to police. Nicole O'Neal-Deboise, 37, of 32 Barclay St., was arrested and charged with two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous...

Spoils of the kingdom; clergy misconduct and religious community.
9780252031595 Spoils of the kingdom; clergy misconduct and religious community. Shupe, Anson. U. of Illinois Press 2007 148 pages $38.00 Hardcover BV4011 When there have been witnesses to and reported experiences...

Cultivating quiet.
JAN. 18, 2009: SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Patricia Datchuck Sanchez 1 Sam 3:3-10,19; Ps 40; 1 Cor G:13-15,17-20; John 1:35-42 When Genevieve was a high school student in northern Maine, her Y.C.S. (Young Christian Students) group frequently visited convalescent homes and hospitals...

The clergy, the laity and Secularism.
The questions we should ask are: What actions does the Church perform, and Whose job is it to perform them? The answer to the second question for lay persons may be found in the Church's social doctrine and in Vatican II's document Gaudium et spes. Whenever those two bodies...

Cardinal Bernardin's seamless garment.
It has been 25 years since Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, then archbishop of Chicago and the incoming chairman of the U.S. bishops' pro-life activities committee, delivered the Gannon Lecture at Fordham University in New York, where he called for a "consistent ethic of life" approach to moral issues, an approach...

2008 Catholic Blog Awards.
[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] The Catholic Blog Awards recognizes blogs in a number of categories. Like AllStar Games, fans vote on the winners. Although total votes were relatively few (the largest total in any category was just 1,204 votes), the awards offer one look at blog popularity. The hands-down...

The church's future is now.
For a long time in America, the local parish was the public sacrament, the declaration not only of who we are but that we are. In stone and steeples, stained-glass windows and statuary, accented in Irish or Italian, Polish or German, our immigrant ancestors Said as prominently as possible:...

The emerging post, post-Vatican II American Catholic.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Fifty years ago next week, on Jan. 29, Pope John XXIII announced an ecumenical council--the first in nearly a century. Six years later, in 1965, the sessions of the Second Vatican Council concluded. Fast-forward to 2009: No one under the age of, say,...

Illicit license: why four clergy and other religious croups challenged South Carolina's sectarian car tags.
A parishioner recently told me, "I never thought I'd say this, but I'm proud that my minister is involved in a lawsuit." I have to say that I am proud, too, to join two other ministers, a rabbi and a Hindu organization in a lawsuit against the state of...

Saints, clergy, and other religious figures on film and television, 1895-2003.
078642186X Saints, clergy, and other religious figures on film and television, 1895-2003. Paietta, Ann C. McFarland & Co. 2005 192 pages $39.95 Paperback PN1995 Paietta (Deep River Public Library, Connecticut) cites...