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March 2016

March 13, 2016
After this story made news on Saturday, here's an update:  Catholic Memorial School administrators apologized...
March 12, 2016
This is my second homily for this weekend. My homily for the RCIA scrutiny is...
March 12, 2016
From the vault:  It can’t be easy living with a deacon, especially now. Every year,...
March 12, 2016
This is the first of two homilies I'm preparing for this weekend. It is tied to the...
March 12, 2016
From The Washington Post:  An ugly thing happened at a high school basketball game in...
March 11, 2016
It happened in Omaha: On the first morning of the 31st annual Cathedral Flower Festival,...
March 11, 2016
A reminder from the Diocese of Brooklyn, above. Details: The Diocese of Brooklyn, in partnership with...
March 11, 2016
From Peggy Noonan's sweet and tender remembrance of the former First Lady: One day at dusk in...
March 11, 2016
Details:  The Boston Globe has ended its brief foray as a publisher of the stand-alone...
March 11, 2016
Aleteia's Zoe Romanowsky interviewed Msgr. Charles Pope from the Archdiocese of Washington and heard a...
March 11, 2016
From his blog, a very good question:  One of my favorite memories of baseball is...
March 10, 2016
Some good news:  The number of people going to confession in St. Peter's Basilica increased...
March 10, 2016
In the New York Times, of all places, TV critic James Poniewozik has this observation...
March 10, 2016
From AP:  Pope Francis imposed new financial accountability regulations on the Vatican's multimillion-dollar saint-making machine...
March 10, 2016
From Charlotte:  A local singer was invited and then uninvited to perform at a gala...
March 10, 2016
A good observation in Aleteia this morning, from Judy Landrieu Klein: There a few people...
March 10, 2016
An interesting phenomenon, reported in The New York Times: When Chris Doyle learned that his health...
March 09, 2016
A fascinating interview with Bridgeport's Bishop Frank Caggiano in Forbes:  Susan Adams: What challenges have...
March 09, 2016
Details, from RNS: Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl appeared to take a swipe at Georgetown University...
March 08, 2016
Behold "Renewal in Motion," a video featuring some sensational basketball moves from the Franciscan Friars of the...
March 08, 2016
It happened in Germany, according to this from RNS:  A Catholic priest has resigned from...
March 08, 2016
A great glimpse at the Ohio governor's formative years in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, when he...
March 08, 2016
Details, from the U.K.'s Catholic Herald: The Bishop of Clifton has called on Catholics to...
March 07, 2016
From CNS:  The number of baptized Catholics worldwide has grown at a faster rate than...
March 07, 2016
An essay released today, penned by Robert P. George and George Weigel: Donald Trump is manifestly...
March 07, 2016
Warning!  Profanity ahead, from the Associated Press:  When someone at a Donald Trump rally last...
March 07, 2016
Another glimpse of the former First Lady: As Sunday services let out at Bel-Air Presbyterian Church...
March 07, 2016
I love this story, from Kansas City:   Everyone deserves a good, warm, and healthy...
March 07, 2016
Bishop Mark Bartchak over the weekend released a letter, responding to the sex abuse scandal...
March 06, 2016
Details:  The beef between the Don and the pontiff — Pope Francis suggesting that it’s...
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