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April 2013

April 07, 2013
Is this a first?  I could be wrong, but I’m not aware of any other...
April 06, 2013
Details: Funeral services for legendary movie critic Roger Ebert have been set for Monday. The...
April 06, 2013
John Allen, wrapping up his visit to Argentina, draws some interesting conclusions about the new...
April 06, 2013
Details from the Times-Republican in Iowa: Some may call it CSI with animals, but Gary...
April 06, 2013
From the Miami Herald:  Thirty-three years ago, Mother Teresa of Calcutta came to Miami to...
April 05, 2013
This is really quite remarkable. At a secular university, Catholic students have banded together to...
April 05, 2013
You can't make this stuff up:  Spokane's Gonzaga University has denied a Knights of Columbus...
April 05, 2013
Details from CNS: Pope Francis reaffirmed the importance of responding decisively to the problem of...
April 05, 2013
In effect: a court has ruled that anyone should be able to get it, at...
April 04, 2013
You don't need to know a note of music to love this. Details:  We dare...
April 04, 2013
Is this from The Onion? No:  Two gay seniors at George Washington University say they feel alienated because the...
April 04, 2013
This may be the most clear-eyed and honest piece on homosexuality and the Catholic Church...
April 04, 2013
Hot on the heels of this item, about a deacon who won his case against...
April 04, 2013
It may not be the reason you think. Details:  The Rev. Stephen Fichter understood just...
April 04, 2013
NCR's John Allen has arrived in Argentina, and wasted no time tracking down the most...
April 03, 2013
Awesome:  A courageous young man from Oregon made history with the first recorded account of...
April 03, 2013
Details:  Greg Hall is safe from government fines – for now. The Catholic deacon who...
April 03, 2013
Carol Glatz at CNS has unearthed some fascinating tidbits about the new pontiff, culled from...
April 03, 2013
Text from the Vatican:  Another element. In the professions of faith of the New Testament,...
April 03, 2013
Details:  Republican North Carolina state legislators have proposed allowing an official state religion in a measure that...
April 02, 2013
Further proof that God never ceases to surprise us. Tonight, I found myself continually surprised—and...
April 02, 2013
Now for something completely different, from CNEWA's blog One-to-One:  The Russian military unveiled an unlikely...
April 02, 2013
From CNS:  Previously, [Vatican spokesman] Father [Federico] Lombardi dispelled rumors that the 76-year-old pope's singing...
April 02, 2013
I was otherwise engaged on Sunday, and didn't check out the NY Times.  But other...
April 02, 2013
Details:  Pope Francis became the first pope to tour the excavated necropolis where St. Peter...
April 02, 2013
From EWTN: "The Council wishes to share with people who suffer because of autism, the...
April 02, 2013
So says Britain's Damien Thompson, who blogs:  There's plenty of scepticism about the Ordinariate –...
April 01, 2013
Details:  The Diocese of Scranton's oldest and longest-ordained priest, Monsignor James T. Clarke, died on...
April 01, 2013
Honestly, my headline doesn't do justice to this piece.  Just drop everything and take the...
April 01, 2013
And he's planning a wedding for this summer: Jimmy Kimmel will marry his fiancée, Molly McNearney, in...
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