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Prayers, not Politics

for the people who have been affected by this storm and its aftermath.

My employer is generously matching all monetary gifts being made by employees.

posted by Patrick Sweeney at 9:08 PM   Permalink  

 
Is this too much 'Inside Baseball' for you?

Attorney Michael Gaynor is critical of Bill Donohue

Much to my surprise and disappointment, Mr. Donohue did not take the opportunity to support Mr. Balestrieri and instead told Mr. Arroyo and his audience on The World Over With Raymond Arroyo's August 26, 2005 program that there was much merit to Cardinal Theodore McCarrick's reluctance to have confrontation at the Communion rail.

Marc A. Balestrieri was fired from his job in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles for bringing a canonical case of excommunication against Senator John Kerry and started a web site De Fide to draw attention to the case.

You wouldn't expect Bill to denounce Cardinal McCarrick as a coward, would you?

posted by Patrick Sweeney at 9:31 PM   Permalink  

 
Fr. Ryan Ericson suicide update

DA to seek families' advice on findings : AP

The families of two funeral home workers killed more than three years ago in western Wisconsin will advise a prosecutor on what to do with the findings of a police investigation into whether a priest was involved the slayings, the prosecutor said Monday...

Police said they finished their investigation into the February 2002 slayings of funeral home director Dan O'Connell and his intern, James Ellison, and any connection to the Rev. Ryan Erickson, who killed himself after officers interviewed him.

Johnson refused to reveal any details of the police probe until he divulged the findings to the victims' families in a meeting planned early in September.

O'Connell and Ellison were shot to death in the O'Connell Family Funeral Home. Hudson Police Chief Richard Trende has said investigators ruled out that the killings were random and listed the motive as personal.

Erickson was working at a church in Hudson at the time of the slayings. Investigations questioned him about the killings in 2004 as part of a separate investigation into an allegation involving a minor or minors, authorities have said.

Erickson committed suicide Dec. 19 outside his new parish in Hurley after police searched his church residence and office. Police said Erickson had denied any involvement in the slayings.

Trende has refused to say what led detectives to question the priest about the murders, and a judge has sealed court documents in the case, including requests for search warrants.

posted by Patrick Sweeney at 9:18 PM   Permalink  

 
Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli)

I'm helping to edit his article in the Wikipedia

I've removed from the text that he was named venerable or a Servant of God.

I wasn't able to find any online reference to it or in recently published biographies of the Pope. I think people confused him with Pope Pius XI (Giovanni Ferretti) who was beatified in 2000.

So if you can verify that Pope Pius XII was named by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to be a Servant of God or venerable, please let me know.

Also, if you know of maintained lists of the Servants of God, please let me know.

posted by Patrick Sweeney at 8:52 PM   Permalink  

 
1350 miles in 48 hours.

From New York to IBM in Cambridge, Mass. to pick up my son and take him to the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh.

and back to New York.

posted by Patrick Sweeney at 12:06 AM   Permalink