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December 2014

December 30, 2014
From Huffington Post:  The Bible App has been downloaded more than 162 million times, according to the...
December 30, 2014
From WLOX-TV:  Jasen Dixon's nativity scene featuring zombies was ordered to be taken down Friday, however, it's...
December 29, 2014
Winston Churchill in 1904 (photo: Imperial War Museum / Wikipedia) From The Daily Telegraph:  In...
December 29, 2014
Photo: by Edgar Jiminez / Wikipedia Tour operators must be thrilled. That's nearly three times...
December 29, 2014
Over the Christmas break, I was able to attend Mass at my childhood parish, St....
December 29, 2014
From an extensive interview in the Catholic World Report:  CWR: You’ve spent half your life as...
December 29, 2014
Writer Sarah Thebarge unloads over at Huffington Post:  I was on staff at a church...
December 28, 2014
Details: ISIL Takfiri militants have razed to the ground a Catholic church in a gruesome...
December 28, 2014
Photo: Jeffrey Bruno, Wikimedia Commons From Vatican Radio:  Pope Francis said on Sunday that “in...
December 28, 2014
As Anthony Joseph Alles is ordained, two deacons hold up a cloak called the bashkoon...
December 28, 2014
A snip of another instant classic, from The Miami Herald:  Speaking of surprises, in… APRIL...
December 28, 2014
And now, at the end of my pastoral message, which is intended to draw everyone's...
December 27, 2014
While visiting family in Maryland for the holidays, we decided to stop by a place...
December 27, 2014
App developer Joe Riquelme has done pretty well for himself—he developed Videoshop, an editing app...
December 27, 2014
From CNN:  Rafael Ramos was an unusual cop. He saw the streets of New York...
December 27, 2014
Details:  The Holy See has released a radical feminist activist who bared her breasts in...
December 27, 2014
Nativity scene at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs, Forest Hills, NY (photo: Deacon Greg Kandra)...
December 26, 2014
Image: "The Twelfth Night" by David Teniers (17th century) Very cute. From those jolly folks...
December 26, 2014
Mine must have gotten lost in the mail. But if you're wondering what a card...
December 26, 2014
The case has polarized Ireland, where abortion is still illegal. Details, from the Associated Press: ...
December 26, 2014
From Boston.com:  A baby Jesus statue at a Haverhill church’s nativity scene was taken and...
December 26, 2014
Photo: Peter Lemieux / CNEWA Hard to believe it, but today marks the 10-year anniversary...
December 26, 2014
Today marks the feast of the church's first martyr and the patron saint of deacons,...
December 26, 2014
Back in the early days of the last century, my wife's great-grandmother Agnes Meyer and...
December 25, 2014
Photo: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Adorable. From The Daily Mail:  Babies born at a...
December 25, 2014
Shortly before Midnight Mass—which actually took place at midnight!— from my parish, Our Lady Queen...
December 24, 2014
Scenes from our parish Christmas pageant, held during tonight's 5 p.m. Mass. Kudos to little...
December 24, 2014
From Al Arabiya News:  After a year of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria...
December 24, 2014
From The Wall Street Journal: After a couple of millennia of sustained popularity, the stained-glass...
December 24, 2014
The headline in The Washington Post: Believing in Santa Claus could help your kids develop...
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