The Catholic Church teaches that our moral and intellectual failures may sometimes be excused by something it calls "invincible ignorance" -- an absolute incapacity to understand that what we're doing is wrong. The plea of invincible ignorance seems just about the only hope for Catholic parents in…

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JOHN SHELBY SPONG, recently retired Episcopal bishop of Newark, is not letting the grass grow under his feet.

Some Christians prepare for Easter by taking on a special penance for Lent. Me, I've been watching Jesus movies for what seems forty days and forty nights.