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January 2013

January 09, 2013
NCR's John Allen speculates: President Barack Obama needs to find a new envoy to the...
January 08, 2013
From the Washington Post:  President Obama has picked Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of slain civil rights...
January 08, 2013
You may remember when the head of SSPX used that term recently. Now the Vatican...
January 08, 2013
There's a lovely remembrance of first encountering "Les Miserables" -- the musical and the book...
January 08, 2013
A reader in Cincinnati brought this to my attention.  It comes from St. Cecilia's Church...
January 08, 2013
Really? Yes. Read on: Sister Donna Quinn, a Chicago native who has been a Catholic...
January 08, 2013
From Whispers:  At Roman Noon this Tuesday, the Pope named Bishop Dennis Sullivan – the...
January 08, 2013
From the Wall Street Journal:  Confident that aspiring corporate leaders want to worship more than...
January 07, 2013
Lest we forget:  When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in...
January 07, 2013
From the review of new books about St. Francis of Assisi: “Why you?” a man...
January 07, 2013
A glimpse at life in one corner of war-ravaged Aleppo, Syria, from AFP: The aging...
January 07, 2013
A few weeks back, I posted on the collection of homilies to which I contributed,...
January 06, 2013
Can any of us remember a time, not so very long ago, when this wasn't...
January 06, 2013
A lot of you may remember this video, which has been making the rounds for...
January 06, 2013
From the Holy See’s website today: Following a tradition begun by Pope John Paul II,...
January 06, 2013
From California comes this brief Q&A with Deacon Larry Modugno, lead chaplain for the Ventura...
January 06, 2013
From the Holy See's website today: Following a tradition begun by Pope John Paul II,...
January 06, 2013
Bob Faw looks at that question in this incisive story for PBS's "Religion & Ethics...
January 05, 2013
A friend in Florida sent me the picture above just before Christmas, with this explanation:...
January 05, 2013
This Sunday's New York Times looks at that question through the eyes of Kate and...
January 05, 2013
If you have some things you'd like to change in the new year, you might...
January 05, 2013
This time of year, a lot of us are sending and receiving Christmas letters –...
January 05, 2013
This time of year, a lot of us are sending and receiving Christmas letters –...
January 05, 2013
A deacon from Richmond wrote me this morning: Our classmate Don Fox was ordained a...
January 04, 2013
And, perhaps fittingly, the star is literally a son of Grace. Details:  His performance is...
January 04, 2013
Details:  The head of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X said he has been...
January 04, 2013
We've all heard Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" sung in a variety of styles -- from the...
January 04, 2013
He's got quite an unusual background—and was influenced by the writings of Thomas Merton :...
January 04, 2013
From Philadelphia comes this remembrance of a deacon who died just after Christmas: Paul Michael...
January 04, 2013
From my former colleague Steve Hartman at CBS News, a lovely slice of American life:...
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