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March 2013

March 11, 2013
John Allen today looks at three American cardinals who are getting some papal buzz, and...
March 11, 2013
From John Allen:  Journalists are often derided as a fairly un-churched bunch, but yesterday the...
March 11, 2013
From Catholic News Service blog:  The first clue to the identity of the new pope...
March 10, 2013
Here's something you don't hear about every day. From the Washington Post:  Shortly after arriving...
March 10, 2013
Details:  Sr. Susanne Gallagher, Sr. Mary Therese Harrington and Rev. James H. McCarthy, founders of...
March 10, 2013
Hot on the heels of this video of nuns getting into the act, along comes...
March 10, 2013
Ann Rodgers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette gives some welcome perspective on what is unfolding in...
March 09, 2013
And John Allen explains why: If the readers of Italy’s paper of record, Corriere della Sera,...
March 09, 2013
Want a peek at where the electors will be staying?  How about a glimpse inside...
March 09, 2013
Technology is having a dramatic impact in how the faithful follow the coming election for...
March 09, 2013
An interesting perspective from writer Ashley McGuire in the Washington Post:  With the Catholic Church...
March 09, 2013
A few suggestions from veteran Vatican watcher John Thavis, in USA TODAY:  There's an appetite...
March 08, 2013
Some guidance on what to expect on March 12, from Fr. Thomas Reese:  On the...
March 08, 2013
From New York's blogging cardinal archbishop, Timothy Dolan:  Every day we each begin with the...
March 08, 2013
They were stars on Oprah, and now they're headed to another hit TV show:  TEAM...
March 08, 2013
How about a six-month time out? From today's Letters to the Editor in the New...
March 08, 2013
That's one piece of wisdom from an interview by CNS with Nigeria's Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan:...
March 08, 2013
That, according to a new poll. From Politico: Among Catholics, 54 percent back same-sex marriage,...
March 07, 2013
From the Washington Post:  Five key Catholic bishops are opposing the newly authorized Violence Against...
March 07, 2013
Courtesy Sister Rose.  Check it out below.
March 07, 2013
From the Georgia Bulletin: Warren Hill received the sacraments of the Catholic Church on Feb....
March 07, 2013
I can't think of a better choice for the Fighting Irish, can you? From the...
March 07, 2013
In a profile a couple years ago, "60 Minutes" famously referred to Cardinal Timothy Dolan...
March 07, 2013
This has to be a first. Someone has cobbled together a version of "Y.M.C.A" endorsing...
March 06, 2013
A Brooklyn landmark is about to get an extreme—and much-needed—makeover. As a local website described...
March 06, 2013
Source. 
March 06, 2013
An interesting development in San Francisco (h/t Creative Minority Report). The pastor at Most Holy...
March 06, 2013
From the indispensable John Thavis:  U.S. cardinals abruptly canceled their planned briefing today, and no...
March 06, 2013
This doesn't happen very often, but it happened yesterday in Ohio:  The Rev. Robert Marrone, who...
March 06, 2013
From the New York Times:  Roman Catholics in the United States say that their church...
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