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April 2014

April 20, 2014
This email was forwarded to me last night. It comes from Father Tom Wehinger in...
April 19, 2014
Just yesterday, I got an email from a friend who is a priest in South...
April 19, 2014
Some wonderful news about my friend Father Gregory West and his growing flock in South...
April 19, 2014
My Holy Saturday always begins with coffee and bagels with the RCIA folks in the...
April 19, 2014
This has been making the round again this season: the ubiquitous "Hallelujah" (lately made famous,...
April 18, 2014
From the Good Friday homily this year, here's Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, the preacher of the papal...
April 18, 2014
A stunning image by Rosalind Chan-Ghazi, ace photographer for our parish bulletin. She was in...
April 18, 2014
  After reading my Good Friday homily, describing a visit to Calvary, a deacon reader...
April 18, 2014
The must-see video from Holy Thursday. Beautiful. Once again, he teaches by doing. Are we...
April 18, 2014
That singular and historic moment—no pope had ever been seen going to confession before—may be...
April 17, 2014
Details: Four Long Island teenagers have been expelled from their Catholic high school, two for...
April 17, 2014
From the Atlanta Vocations Facebook page: Atlanta seminarian Rev. Mr. Brian Baker will be serving...
April 17, 2014
About 15 years ago, my wife and I made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land....
April 17, 2014
An alert reader sent these my way: snapshots from Pope Francis this afternoon. A report...
April 17, 2014
This time, a duet: "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun." Check out the video below. CNS...
April 17, 2014
From USA TODAY:  Jews in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk where pro-Russian militants have...
April 17, 2014
Really. Details:  Canadian singer Christo Graham has turned the water of one of Andrew Lloyd...
April 17, 2014
I stumbled on this homily today, and it seems both appropriate and prophetic. It comes...
April 17, 2014
From Vatican Radio:  For the second year in a row Pope Francis has chosen to...
April 17, 2014
From Reuters:  Despite a high-profile first year as the head of the Vatican, Pope Francis...
April 17, 2014
As we prepare to begin the Triduum, I thought I'd post a few homiletic thoughts...
April 16, 2014
Thousands of pilgrims walk the streets of Jerusalem every year, retracing the footsteps of Christ,...
April 16, 2014
From The Herald in Scotland: As Scotland's newest Roman Catholic bishop he could easily have...
April 16, 2014
An former colleague from my days at CBS sent this my way: a brief video...
April 16, 2014
This day marks "Spy Wednesday," when Judas plotted Christ's arrest and "spied" for an opportunity...
April 16, 2014
Some great stuff here, from Cardinal Seán O'Malley's Chrism Mass homily yesterday: We gather for...
April 16, 2014
Some interesting history on this controversial rite, from David Gibson at Religion News Service, via...
April 15, 2014
A reader sent this my way with a note: "People need to know that sometimes...
April 15, 2014
The Rev. Noah H. Evans, center, rector of Grace Episcopal Church, and the Rev. Chip...
April 15, 2014
They pray and do the dishes.
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