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January 2013

January 14, 2013
It's not about architecture. It's about attitude. I write about it here:  Hey, I'm as...
January 14, 2013
This afternoon, I received an e-mail from a parish in Queens, encouraging me to take...
January 14, 2013
From the Facebook page of a friend who was ordained a priest last year: On...
January 14, 2013
The Los Angeles Times notes his passing: Among the 1,100 Jews saved from the Nazis by German...
January 14, 2013
These guys clearly had too much time on their hands. The Facebook page for this...
January 14, 2013
This is both heartbreaking and appalling.  From The Age in Australia: Identical twins have been...
January 14, 2013
From Reuters:  Several hundred thousand people massed at the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Sunday...
January 14, 2013
They've pulled the plug on courtship, and the New York Times is there to write...
January 13, 2013
I kid you not. I'm actually early with this; today is technically the vigil of...
January 13, 2013
Details:  The frescoed walls of the Sistine Chapel are ringing with the wails and coos...
January 13, 2013
New York's governor has just declared that the flu this season has reached epidemic proportions: ...
January 13, 2013
On his Facebook page, Father James Martin, S.J., offers a snippet from his forthcoming book...
January 12, 2013
Get a load of this spectacular last-second shot by the kid in black, #50. This...
January 12, 2013
Director Tom Hooper discusses the work that went into his interpretation of the musical, and...
January 12, 2013
[Click here for readings.] At home, I have a little green book that someone gave...
January 12, 2013
[Click here for readings.] At home, I have a little green book that someone gave...
January 12, 2013
You no doubt remember the video "Ordain a Lady" that set jaws dropping around the...
January 12, 2013
The good people at Rome Reports have put together the brief video below, which helps...
January 12, 2013
This comes from a letter signed by more than 1/4 of all the Catholic priests...
January 11, 2013
Details, from Mendon, Massachusetts:  The town has bought St. Michael the Archangel Church and plans...
January 11, 2013
Yes. Just when you thought someone couldn't find a new and surprising way to do...
January 11, 2013
From the New York Times:  The rebirth of a medieval Cistercian monastery building here on...
January 11, 2013
The lights are still ablaze in Princeton, New Jersey, where I stepped into St. Paul's Church...
January 10, 2013
Watch what happens when a clever dude with a camera, a costume and a car...
January 10, 2013
My friend, the Trappist priest James Stephen Behrens at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit...
January 10, 2013
Details, from AP:  Germany's Roman Catholic Church said Wednesday it has called off an independent...
January 09, 2013
With a grateful h/t to my blog neighbor Frank, here's the text of the letter...
January 09, 2013
The saint's relics arrived in England's Liverpool Cathedral last weekend, where the performance below took...
January 09, 2013
Well, despite what you may think, you can't just automatically excommunicate them. Canon lawyer Ed...
January 09, 2013
Wow.  Just wow:  Smartphone and tablet users who want a full-sized keyboard without carrying one...
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