The National Catholic Register nails it.

Kmiec provides the details here.

M.Z. Forrest believes that the chaplain’s denial of communion to Kmiec violates Canon 912. 

M.Z. may indeed be right, and I don’t doubt that he knows much more about Canon Law than I do, but I think I’ll wait for Ed Peters’s analysis.

Either way, I am glad the good chaplain gave Kmiec an earful.

Update: If any of SA’s readers know the name of the chaplain or how to get in touch with him, please let me know via email. I would like to offer him an opportunity to give his version of the event in question here at SA.

Update II: Jay has additional details and commentary here.

Update III: Jay has informed me that Ed Peters has come down on the side of Kmiec; and if Peters says the chaplain violated Canon Law then I accept his conclusion without reservation.

For doing his pastoral duty.

Courtesy of Professor Douglas W. Kmiec, whose head is now deeply buried in the proverbial sand:

“I do not understand Senator Obama to be pro-abortion . . . .”

Really?

Then perhaps you need to brush up on your research skills, professor.

This is one of the most moving, honest, and powerful posts that I’ve read in quite some time.

(LvC&EI!)

An excellent editorial by Fr. Roger J. Landry.

Too funny.

You can read the inspiration for this website here.

I’ve had a few requests for the links to my appearance on Hardball that took place during my sabbatical from SA (May 30, 2007). There were two segments, and you can watch them here and here.

God Bless Sister Muriel Curran for her Christ-like example on how to forgive those who “trespass against us.” 

(LvJay)

Whither the concern for scandal?

The Catholic News Agency has this report.

I cannot think of any actor that deserved to play the role of Jesus more than Jim Caviezel.

(LvC&EI!)

Three cheers for Cardinal Egan.

Update: For thoughtful commentary on the matter, see here, here, here, and here.

Courtesy of HRC.

What’s next? Barack Obama wearing a scapular?

Interesting. I was taught the exact opposite during RCIA.

Any thoughts on this from my papist hommies?

I found this extremely encouraging:

Pope Benedict XVI received an ecstatic welcome from 57,000 faithful in Yankee Stadium for the final Mass of his six-day visit to the U.S., drawing applause when he spoke of protecting unborn children and when he called a new generation to priesthood and religious life . . . [W]hile calling young people to put their faith in Christ into action, he made his strongest statement of the visit regarding abortion.

He asked them to uphold “truths which alone can guarantee respect for the inalienable dignity and rights of each man, woman and child in our world — including the most defenseless of all human beings, the unborn child in the mother’s womb,” he said, to long, loud applause.

A brave and thoughtful post by my pacifist buddy Nate.

Father Frank Pavone would like to see some “clarity” in our political discourse with respect to the abortion issue.  

I’ve been meaning to link to this fascinating article by a fellow at WaPo, entitled “A Catholic Wind in the White House.” Here’s a taste:

Shortly after Pope Benedict XVI’s election in 2005, President Bush met with a small circle of advisers in the Oval Office. As some mentioned their own religious backgrounds, the president remarked that he had read one of the new pontiff’s books about faith and culture in Western Europe.

Save for one other soul, Bush was the only non-Catholic in the room. But his interest in the pope’s writings was no surprise to those around him. As the White House prepares to welcome Benedict on Tuesday, many in Bush’s inner circle expect the pontiff to find a kindred spirit in the president. Because if Bill Clinton can be called America’s first black president, some say, then George W. Bush could well be the nation’s first Catholic president. (more…)

I own the bobblehead in question.

Is this something I need to confess?

(LvJA)

A cool video of my Church:

You can view additional images of Saint Joseph here, here, here, and here.

Excellent.

How do you like them apples, Catholics for Wilfully Disobeying the Church’s Non-negotiable and Crystal-clear Teaching on Abortion?

The Democracy Project has the details.

David Kopel has some interesting information on Father Pfleger, another spiritual advisor to Senator Barack Obama, over at the Volokh Conspiracy.

(Lv SA reader GF)

Blackadder has this interesting post up over at Vox Nova.

This is discouraging, to say the least.

But it isn’t helping matters that Senator McCain has declined to reverse course on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.

Say what you will about President Bush, but on the non-negotiables he was almost perfect. And while Senator McCain’s pro-life record is much. much stronger than Senator Obama’s, the fact remains that his support of federal funding for ESCR is enough for some Catholics to ditch the GOP and return home to the Democratic Party. If this happens, McCain and the GOP are in big trouble.

This wonderful piece by Eric Pavlat came out before I restarted SA, and I’ve been meaning to link it. Here’s the money quote:

Torture violates the dignity of the tortured as well as the torturer. Minds like Cardinal Martino and John Paul II oppose torture categorically. It’s time for Catholics to follow suit.

Amen.

Courtesy of Policraticus.

The Dallas Morning news has this report.