Catholic Church

What keeps them hanging on

Sheila Liaugminas | 18 February 2010

Those who dissent from teachings of the Catholic Church periodically take their organized protests public and often vilify Church hierarchy for not changing with the times to accommodate cultural trends. But one unasked question in news reports covering these angry protestors is…..why do they stay?

Good news in the Times?

Sheila Liaugminas | 25 December 2009

The children of Specialty will deteriorate and die here. The real wonder is that they have survived.

Selective conscience & convenient privacy

Sheila Liaugminas | 13 November 2009

U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy said he was “not going to dignify with an answer” Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas J. Tobin’s public comments that Kennedy could not be a good Catholic and still support abortion rights.

He gave the New York Times a chance

Sheila Liaugminas | 30 October 2009

New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan submitted an op-ed piece to the Times, the paper that claims to run ”All the news that’s fit to print”. But the Times didn’t see Archbishop Dolan’s opinion piece as fit to print.

What the Soviets couldn’t control

Sheila Liaugminas | 25 October 2009

Before and after the Russian Tsarist regime control and Communist occupation of Lithuania, the Catholic Church was always a defining center of gravity.

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