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February 2016

February 25, 2016
Over at The National Catholic Register, Kevin di Camillo is wondering why more permanent deacons...
February 25, 2016
From pollster Patrick Murray in The New York Daily News: To date, Trump has actually...
February 24, 2016
From The Washington Post:  Brian Sandoval, the centrist Republican governor of Nevada, is being vetted...
February 24, 2016
Good news:  Abortion access in the U.S. has been vanishing at the fastest annual pace on...
February 24, 2016
The New York Times reports on the final farewell to Angela Raiola, niece of Salvatore...
February 24, 2016
Details:  Miriam Wuolou was not just any hotel receptionist. The 34-year-old Eritrean, who had Italian...
February 23, 2016
I confess this political couple hasn't been very much on my radar screen, but this...
February 23, 2016
Details:  U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders praises Pope Francis in a new video interview...
February 23, 2016
Sad news in Ohio:  The Diocese of Toledo said Monday that all five members of...
February 22, 2016
From Philly.com:  When Lent began earlier this month, Archbishop Chaput wrote a column in which...
February 21, 2016
From Canada:  It would be inappropriate for a person intent on assisted suicide to request...
February 20, 2016
An interesting analysis from The New York Times this morning: In the cage fight of...
February 20, 2016
More details are emerging about the Jubilee weekend scheduled for May 27-29.  I received an...
February 20, 2016
Details:  The microcephaly outbreak in Brazil, which coincided with the spread of the Zika virus,...
February 20, 2016
From The St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson has issued a letter calling...
February 19, 2016
From The Georgia Bulletin:  The Archdiocese of Atlanta’s eight new deacons will serve the elderly,...
February 19, 2016
Fr. James Martin explains it all succinctly in The Washington Post: Here are a few...
February 19, 2016
After battling an awful cold for a couple days earlier in the week—facilitated, in part,...
February 19, 2016
John Burger has the scoop:  The Second Vatican Council described the Eucharist as “the source...
February 19, 2016
The order is taking its case to the media—specifically, new media:  Little Sisters of the...
February 17, 2016
From a press release issued today: The Marriage Reality Movement announced Sunday, World Marriage Day,...
February 17, 2016
This seems noteworthy to me: Though Republicans like to think of themselves as the party...
February 17, 2016
It happened while he was greeting people in the crowd Tuesday. From Aleteia: Unable to...
February 15, 2016
You may remember the faculty voted for him to be removed last week.  But he...
February 15, 2016
From the BBC:  Hundreds of letters and photographs that tell the story of Pope John...
February 14, 2016
TIME magazine notes that when Antonin Scalia was appointed to the Supreme Court, Catholics were...
February 14, 2016
The late Supreme Court justice in 2010 gave a stemwinder of a speech in Maryland,...
February 14, 2016
From The Times of Malta:  Malta will not be getting permanent deacons anytime soon as...
February 13, 2016
The sudden death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a Catholic, raises an interesting question....
February 13, 2016
Those who have been following this unfolding scandal may not find this news surprising: The...
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