Leon J. Podles :: DIALOGUE

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The university administration certainly conspired to cover up Sandusky’s abuse, but was he also pimping kids to rich pedophile donors?
Probably not, but there is a possibility it could be true.
There are rings and networks of pedophiles. How they network is a great mystery to the agents of the law, but they definitely network and have [...]

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Canada, like some U.S. states, (e.g. Maryland) does not have a statute of limitations on felonies, so child abusers can be prosecuted whenever the evidence comes forward. As far as I can see, the statute of limitations is for the benefit of the administration of the courts. It is difficult to process very old cases [...]

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One of my regular commentators has been hacked. I got an e-mail from him, claiming he was in Madrid, had his wallet and passport, and needed 1,500 to get home. Atlantic magazine has an article this month “Hacker” on this precise scam.
Moreover, his e-mail may be attached so that any e-mails sent to him are [...]

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Those of us of a certain age share pop cultural refereces that are lost on the younger generation, whose references I find mystifying.
When I was hiking a fellow hiker of my age and I were resting, When he decided it was time to go, he turned to me and said Let’s went! To which I replied [...]

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Here is a good review of The Way from Christianity Today.

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The hiatus in my blogging was the result of my trip to Utah and New Mexico.
I camped in Chaco Canyon, which is still isolated (30 miles down a corrugated dirt road and across several washes). The ruins are still impressive, and arouse in everyone the questions — why here? And why did everyone leave?

Reconstruction [...]

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Since 2002 Msgr Scicluna has been investigating cases of sexual abuse for the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, at first under Cardinal Ratzinger. Scicluna gathered the evidence against Maciel and spoke to numerous victims, They and Jason Barry have a high opinion of his honesty, sincerity, and sympathy.
Like all the others – Jason [...]

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Today is the Feast of St. James.
 
Vivat Hispania!
 
And what is a feast without fireworks?

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I am hiking in the rain forests of thr Northwest (with the emphasis on rain).
I will moderate comments every few days.
I do not know enough about Islam to enter into that conversation, but I find it very interesting
Lee
 

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 The Jesuits are not aware that the Koran is not the Scripture of the Catholic Church. Perhaps interreligious dialogue between Jesuits and Catholics would help the Jesuits to understand Catholicism better.

 A plan to allow for the reading of the Quran from the pulpit during a Mass at St. Peter Church in Charlotte June 26 has [...]

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Some women in Catonsville, Maryland, were supposedly ordained by a women  bishop of dubious lineage, who emphasizes that 

Roman Catholic Womenpriests traces its origins to the so-called Danube Seven, a group of women who were ordained aboard a ship in the river in 2002 by three male bishops. Two of those bishops were never publicly identified, [...]

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From The New York Times
 France is Scolded over Care of Great Hamster of Alsace 
 and 
Illinois: Priest Accused of Helping Mobster Keep Violin

The violin in question was probably safer with the mobsters than with the feds. Perhaps the priest was a musician .
 

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It is a custom among Catholics to pray for those who have no one to pray for them and to pray for the forgotten dead. Daily I pray for all those who died in the wars of this past century. When our children were small I took them to a military cemetery for a [...]

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It certainly looks like Dominique Strauss-Kahn (DSK) did what he was accused of doing – it is hard to imagine why a chambermaid would have made up such a story, and there seems to be forensic evidence. But after the violent tryst, DSK didn’t seem to be worried or anxious.
My wife, a reader of [...]

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