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  • Syrian Christians live in uneasy alliance with Bashar Assad

    USA Today writers Stephen Starr and S. Akminas offer insightful reporting into the challenges facing Syrian Christians:

    Hani Sarhan is a Christian who says none of his relatives works with Bashar Assad's regime or has anything to do with it.

    "But what we heard from (the protesters) at the beginning of this revolution saying,'Christians to Beirut, Alawites to the coffin,' started us thinking about the real aim of this revolution," he said. "So from this point of view, fearing for my life, I declared my support for President Assad."

    Muslims dominate this nation of 22 million people, but Christians can be found at all levels of Syrian government, business and military. The 2 million Christians here trace their roots to ancient communities and have survived under many rulers as Christian enclaves in other Arab nations, such as Saudi Arabia, have withered.

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  • What good are clergy sex abuse review boards?

    In light of historic criminal trials of church officials this year in Philadelphia and Kansas City, that's the question many Catholics are asking.

    Both trials find church administrators on the defensive for not utilizing their lay review boards, which were set up by the U.S. bishops' in 2002, when they passed the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, and were designed to help bishops evaluate allegations of clergy sexual misconduct.

    Yet, as a report in U.S. Catholic today makes clear, the Kansas City and Philadelphia cases show a key flaw: The value of the boards hinges entirely on how bishops choose to use them.

    A reminder:

    In Philadelphia, a grand jury report released last year (the third such governmental investigation into the archdiocese's handling of abuse cases) found the archdiocese had left 41 priests who had been credibly accused of abuse in ministry.

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  • Turn your swears into a good deed

    I saw it in Heifer International. You can link your Twitter account to an online monitor that will charge you for every curse and obscenity. Charityswearbox.com has raised $59,698 for various causes. The current feature is cancer.

    Turn a bad word into a good deed. Set the amount you will pay -- usually a dollar, could be more. Choose a charity from a list of a dozen good works. Enter a method of payment.



  • Philly abuse trial: Prosecution rests its case

    After eight weeks, the prosecution in the trial against two Philadelphia priests has rested its case.

    From the Philadelphia Inquirer:

    After calling nearly 50 witnesses and presenting close to 1,900 documents over eight weeks, prosecutors on Thursday rested their case in the landmark trial involving child sex abuse by Archdiocese of Philadelphia priests.

    The team of district attorneys ended by letting jurors handle what they contend is the closest thing to a smoking gun in the case: a tattered gray folder that had been hidden in a locked safe at archdiocesan offices for more than a decade.

    Inside were handwritten and typed records, including a list that Msgr. William J. Lynn drafted in 1994 naming about three dozen priests who had admitted or were accused of sexual misconduct with minors, and other documents suggesting the church was girding against a possible wave of lawsuits.

    The trial against Lynn is the first charging a U.S. church official not for sexual abuse, but for the cover-up of such abuse.

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  • Morning Briefing

    Catholic bishops threaten lawsuit to block HHS contraceptive rule

    Some Minn. priests differ with Catholic church over marriage amendment. Three retired priests who are still part of the church came forward to oppose the amendment, putting them on a collision course with the Archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis, who last year informed all priests that they could not publicly dissent.

    Catholic church official trial rested in Philadelphia

    The Politics Of Catholic Schools' Graduation Speakers

    By NCR Staff

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  • St. John I, Pope
    By birth Pope John was a Tuscan, the son of Constantius. He was an archdeacon for several years before being elected Pope upon the death of Pope St. Hormisdas in 523. He was also a good friend and confidant of the philosopher Boethius.In 525 Pope John was sent to Constantinople by King Theodoric of the Ostrogoths to reverse an edict sent out by Emperor Justin against the Arians two years earlier, which required Arians to give back churches which they had taken from orthodox Catholics. Throdoric was himself an Arian, and a strong defender of Arianism (a heresy which arose in the 4th century and denied the divinity of Christ).Even though Theodoric wanted a reversal of Justin’s policy, Pope John did not comply with his wishes. Refusing to support heresy, he only counseled the Emperor Justin to be more gentle in his overzealous dealings with the Arians.The success that Pope John achieved was contrary to the wishes of Theodoric. He was received as the Successor of Peter and all the bishops of the East, with the exception of one, affirmed their communion with him and his precedence as Bishop of Rome, notable by the fact that it was he who presided over the Easter liturgy in Constantinople on April 19, 526. Even the Emperor Justin prostrated himself at the Pope’s feet.However, on his return to Rome, Theodoric, who had just murdered John’s good friend Boethius, and was furious with the outcome of the mission and had the Pope imprisoned in Ravenna, where he died of starvation and ill treatment.His body was taken to Rome where he now lies buried in the basilica of St. Peter.

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