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April 2016

April 21, 2016
From CBS News:  Iconic rock musician Prince has died, his publicist confirmed to the Associated...
April 21, 2016
My friend Rebecca Hamilton is recovering from cancer surgery and is somehow finding a way...
April 21, 2016
From the International Business Times:  The Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, has executed...
April 20, 2016
Seriously? Yes. From Aleteia's Arabic edition:  Saint Charbel Makhlouf is her patron saint. She loves...
April 20, 2016
A remarkable piece of news from the UK's Catholic Herald:  According to Austrian website Kurier,...
April 20, 2016
What's worse, there's a growing body of evidence that doctors knew the dangers nearly 50...
April 20, 2016
From The Lansing State Journal:  The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Greater Lansing’s new digs are...
April 20, 2016
Details: On April 29, the Trevi Fountain, one of the most popular and emblematic tourist...
April 19, 2016
The press release, sent out today: The Cause for Dorothy Day’s possible eventual beatification and...
April 19, 2016
Today, Utah is poised to declare pornography a "public health hazard":  Utah Gov. Gary R. Herbert is...
April 19, 2016
Studies have shown that a shocking number of children diagnosed with Down Syndrome are being aborted....
April 19, 2016
This is just wonderful. From The Georgia Bulletin:  Beth Anne Ross and William Dempsey III...
April 18, 2016
From AFP: French baker Michel Flamant, who owes his life to the homeless man who...
April 18, 2016
Well, who knew? Details: A new Pew Research Center study of the ways religion influences...
April 18, 2016
Leave it to the great Joanne McPortland  to discover a pearl of great price buried...
April 18, 2016
From The National Review: The Shroud, the most studied, analyzed, and tested religious relic in...
April 18, 2016
From NBC News:  In what Francis himself called Saturday a "last minute decision," the Essas...
April 17, 2016
What a great idea. Details:  Mike Scioscia, veteran manager of the Los Angeles Angels, visited...
April 17, 2016
From The Miami Herald, the posthumous story of Joshua Daniel Bishop, executed last month for...
April 16, 2016
Stunning and heartbreaking — and deeply moving. You can read more about this incredible visit...
April 16, 2016
These are some scenes from outside an abortion clinic, the All Women's Medical Pavilion in...
April 16, 2016
Last week, I received an email from a friend, a woman in Philadelphia. She wrote:...
April 15, 2016
Why does this choice not surprise me? Details: In an interview today with a local...
April 15, 2016
Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders made a highly-publicized trip to the Vatican Friday to speak to...
April 15, 2016
The press release: President Bill Clinton will deliver the keynote address at Loyola Marymount University’s...
April 15, 2016
It happened in Australia: A Melbourne Catholic priest has compared paedophile priests to adulterous women...
April 15, 2016
You don't hear this sort of story very often, from The Riverhead Local newspaper on...
April 14, 2016
Well, this is pretty interesting: Archaeologists have found a heavy stone slab covering the tomb...
April 14, 2016
This popped up on Twitter this morning: an image from the baptistry in Brooklyn's Co-cathedral...
April 14, 2016
Scott Eric Alt takes a careful look at one of the most polarizing and controversial...
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