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April 2013

April 24, 2013
Fr. Michael P. Orsi—a research fellow and scholar at Ave Maria University in Florida— makes...
April 24, 2013
Details:  Prof Christopher McCrudden said that there are serious questions over whether the 120-year-old legal...
April 23, 2013
I haven't seen these yet, but AdWeek takes note of a new campaign launched by...
April 23, 2013
Photo: Jay Nies/ The Catholic Missourian One of the newly ordained dropped me a line...
April 23, 2013
From the Wall Street Journal: This year, several professions geared toward serving the financial and...
April 23, 2013
Photo: Jay Nies/ The Catholic Missourian One of the newly ordained dropped me a line...
April 23, 2013
Aleppo, Syria Details:  Sources in Syria report that the Greek Orthodox archbishop of Aleppo, Paul...
April 22, 2013
What do you think about kids crying in church? We've been reading about  it here...
April 22, 2013
It could be coming soon:  "A saint now!" The canonisation of Wojtyla is getting closer...
April 22, 2013
Some potentially big news on the sainthood front, from John Allen:  A Vatican official responsible...
April 22, 2013
Details:  Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga of Honduras said he was backing more posts for...
April 22, 2013
From The Record in Northern New Jersey comes this lengthy look at why Catholic schools...
April 22, 2013
Over at NCR, Tom Fox notes:  I think this is the first time I have...
April 21, 2013
This happened today at the 11:30 Mass. Our celebrant, the vocations director for my diocese,...
April 21, 2013
Details:  Boston’s Catholic archbishop marked the city’s renewed sense of community after the marathon bombings...
April 21, 2013
To mark the 50th World Day of Prayer for Vocations —which falls every year on...
April 21, 2013
When you think about it, it may be the most unusual war memorial in the...
April 20, 2013
People take part in a candlelight vigil April 18 at the Church of the Assumption...
April 20, 2013
The reader who started it all, and wrote to ask why people don't take crying...
April 20, 2013
From The Atlantic:  A new 60,000-square-foot development is likely to generate friction in any urban...
April 20, 2013
The reader who started it all, and wrote to ask why people don’t take crying...
April 19, 2013
Details:  Two days after the Boston Marathon bombings, Boston Medical Center chaplain Sister Maryanne Ruzzo...
April 19, 2013
Details:  Within hours of news that the two brothers behind the Boston Marathon bombings were...
April 19, 2013
Details:  A rebel Catholic group at the heart of major controversies that plagued former Pope...
April 19, 2013
A deacon from Austin writes: Please keep the people of West, Texas in your prayers....
April 19, 2013
A deacon from Austin writes: Please keep the people of West, Texas in your prayers....
April 19, 2013
An excerpt from "Francis: Pope of  New World" by Andrea Tornielli: When he traveled, Jorge Mario—who...
April 18, 2013
I'm opening up comments for this, to see what you parents out there have to...
April 18, 2013
Yikes: An unemployed man, who said he was only trying to teach his elderly priest...
April 18, 2013
Details: The global economic crisis is hitting Vatican employees in their cassock pockets. The Vatican...
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