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September 2016

September 19, 2016
  This caught my eye because one of his classmates is none other than Bishop...
September 19, 2016
This is what we have come to: While the legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia...
September 19, 2016
Not so very long ago, something like this would have been unthinkable in the deep...
September 19, 2016
From The Forward:  Lewis Burik may not play in a single Stanford football game this...
September 19, 2016
From Vatican Radio:  Don’t envy the rich and powerful or conspire against your neighbour, but...
September 18, 2016
Details: Charmian Carr, known for her role as Liesl Von Trapp in The Sound of Music,...
September 18, 2016
Details: Four more Catholic dioceses — Erie, Greensburg, Pittsburgh and Scranton — have been swept...
September 18, 2016
Details:  A 17-year-old has become the first child to die by euthanasia in Belgium after...
September 16, 2016
You probably remember the heartbreaking story of the seminarian who drowned over the summer while...
September 16, 2016
The Vatican has decreed: The sacredness of human life is so absolute that performing or...
September 16, 2016
Feathers are being ruffled around the Interwebs over what sounds like a surprising piece of news:...
September 15, 2016
He's said it before, and today he said it again:  In a speech Thursday at...
September 15, 2016
From CNS:  In a change to church law, Latin-rite Catholic deacons may not preside at...
September 15, 2016
From Rome Reports:  It was a Mass full of emotions, initiated by the memory of...
September 15, 2016
I was surprised to see something like this pop up in the secular press, but...
September 14, 2016
From CNS:  Clergy who use their position for personal gain rather than to help those...
September 14, 2016
Tim Kaine's bishop issued a statement yesterday, and today two committee chairs of the USCCB have...
September 14, 2016
It's the candidate's sister. From AP: Fairfield University in Connecticut has received a $4 million...
September 14, 2016
I believe this is the first time the pope's daily Mass has been televised live....
September 13, 2016
A reader in Virginia just sent me this statement, from Richmond Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo, responding...
September 13, 2016
From Crux: Pope Francis on Wednesday will celebrate a Mass in honor of Father Jacques...
September 12, 2016
As more details trickle forth about the new book-length interview with Pope Emeritus Benedict, this...
September 12, 2016
So this is a thing now, via Matthew Pinto:  A New York-based friend who is...
September 12, 2016
Here's part of an e-mail that arrived this morning: My son was Baptized at the...
September 12, 2016
From Vatican Radio: Divisions destroy the Church, and the devil seeks to attack the root...
September 11, 2016
Here's a happy group!  (Thanks for the snapshot, Deacon Martin Serraes.) The new deacons are: Rodney...
September 11, 2016
Delivered by Father Michael Duffy on September 15, 2001. The conclusion: The firemen took his body...
September 11, 2016
Details:  The Democratic vice-presidential nominee, Tim Kaine, is predicting the Roman Catholic church may eventually...
September 10, 2016
They dedicated a gorgeous new church in the Diocese of Madison last month (with an assist...
September 10, 2016
The cardinal archbishop of Washington has some strong words about priests who dabble in politics....
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