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September 2016

September 01, 2016
Details:  An Indiana woman charged with child abuse is citing the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration...

August 2016

August 31, 2016
Details, from The Christian Post:  Hollywood actor and filmmaker Mel Gibson appeared as a surprise...
August 31, 2016
The announcement:  USCCB Migration & Refugee Services has received a large charitable donation from the...
August 31, 2016
From Vatican Radio:  Pope Francis has created a new Dicastery to better minister to the...
August 31, 2016
From Argentina:  The community of the Missionaries of Charity in Mar del Plata, Argentina, became...
August 30, 2016
After the recent attacks in Indonesia and France, terror experts are warning other churches could be...
August 30, 2016
From Laura Hanby Hudgens at Patheos:  A few weeks ago when Hillary Clinton became the...
August 30, 2016
The Rev. Brian Cavanaugh, from Franciscan University, offers some great thoughts on Aleteia's homepage—and they...
August 29, 2016
Details: About a dozen Catholic protesters blasted  Hillary Clinton's running mate Tim Kaine outside the...
August 29, 2016
Diane Montagna has the scoop:  Pope Francis on Monday received Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of...
August 29, 2016
From The New York Times, some interesting background and analysis of the so-called Johnson Amendment,...
August 29, 2016
Details:  Back in 2012, GOP nominee Mitt Romney lost the Catholic vote by just 2...
August 28, 2016
The Daily Telegraph in Australia profiles several young people who explain why they are giving...
August 28, 2016
It happened in Indonesia:  An Isis suicide bomber attacked a Catholic priest with an axe...
August 28, 2016
Her image became iconic, and now the Associated Press tells her story:  She became the...
August 27, 2016
Some answers, from Gainesville, Georgia. A reporter there picked up on this story from the...
August 27, 2016
From the Park Community Church in Chicago, a little something that I imagine a lot...
August 27, 2016
We have a mission priest visiting this weekend, so he'll be doing all the preaching...
August 27, 2016
Details:  A Kosciusko man has been charged with two counts of capital murder in the...
August 26, 2016
From The New York Times:  France’s highest administrative court on Friday overturned a town’s ban...
August 26, 2016
Bishop James Conley of the Diocese of Lincoln—legendary for its thriving vocations—spoke recently with Catholic...
August 26, 2016
From Robert Moynihan's blog at Inside the Vatican:  This earthquake occurred 1,937 years to the...
August 25, 2016
Horrifying: Two Catholic nuns were found slain in a Mississippi home where they lived when...
August 25, 2016
From the In My Backyard Desk, a terrific video from CNS (kudos to Katie Breidenbach...
August 25, 2016
From Crux:  Ever since February 28, 2013, when emeritus Pope Benedict XVI unexpectedly, and in...
August 25, 2016
From Pew:  As part of a new survey connected to our broader Religious Landscape Study, we asked...
August 25, 2016
An interesting question over at The Catholic Telegraph, newspaper for Archdiocese of Cincinnati. The answer...
August 24, 2016
Photo from Captain Grammar Pants, via Tom Zampino.    
August 24, 2016
King Mohammed VI, leader of Morocco, made the following remarks Saturday as part of a...
August 24, 2016
Details: The Bowling Green woman accused of desecrating and defacing the St. Clement Catholic Church...
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