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November 2014

November 15, 2014
Here's an early taste of Christmas for you. A few eyebrows were raised yesterday when...
November 15, 2014
"The Samaritan" by Eric Fischl The gospel this Sunday is familiar to a lot of...
November 14, 2014
The leader of Jordan gave an interview to Vatican Radio:  “To lose Christianity from the...
November 14, 2014
What we have come to, via the BBC:   After finalising a painful divorce Wendy...
November 14, 2014
He will be profiled this Sunday, and CBS News has posted a preview: Meantime, NCR...
November 14, 2014
With those words, blogger Elizabeth Westhoff offers some insight into the ancient order to which...
November 14, 2014
From Huffington Post:  Sources close to Patti Smith confirmed to The Huffington Post that she...
November 14, 2014
Details from Vatican Radio:  Actions speak louder than words, particularly in transmitting the faith to...
November 13, 2014
Details: Halifax poet, musician and actor Tanya Davis is turning to the Catholic Church for...
November 13, 2014
Remarkable:  "Father, I can’t go to the restaurant with you because I smell." Franco is...
November 13, 2014
A remarkable and inspiring witness, from The Guardian: The test of faith for which Father...
November 13, 2014
From his homily this morning: In the silence of a home, where there may only...
November 13, 2014
Short answer: no. Still, after the recent news about Cardinal Burke, some think so. But Fr. Dwight...
November 13, 2014
From the Pew Research Center:  Latin America is home to more than 425 million Catholics –...
November 12, 2014
From Catholic News Agency:  While a failure to understand doctrine is present in many segments...
November 12, 2014
The Autumn edition of ONE, the magazine of CNEWA, is now online, and the centerpiece...
November 12, 2014
Priests and deacons: try to break this record next Sunday and tell me what happens. From...
November 12, 2014
From North Texas Catholic, further proof that God writes straight with crooked lines: Deacon Doug...
November 12, 2014
As someone who grew up in Montgomery County, I can only ask: what the—? Details: ...
November 12, 2014
And—big headline here—he mentioned deacons. From Vatican Radio:  Pope Francis today urged bishops, priests and deacons always...
November 11, 2014
Fresh from the USCCB gathering in Baltimore: Change is rattling the hierarchy of the Roman...
November 11, 2014
You've seen her sensational new take on "Like A Virgin." Now the rest of the...
November 11, 2014
From AP:  A high-ranking Roman Catholic official has been exonerated of clergy sex abuse allegations...
November 11, 2014
From the pope's homily this morning: We must resist temptations that distance us from our...
November 10, 2014
It's these guys: the altar servers. Sunday, we installed 27 new servers—in the picture above,...
November 10, 2014
An email arrived last night: Yesterday, the Most Rev. Thomas J. Olmsted, Bishop of Phoenix,...
November 10, 2014
Fr. Z unloads on Catholic blog commenters, and explains why he moderates the comments: I...
November 10, 2014
Details:  Every Christian, whatever his or her vocation, must be able to always forgive and...
November 10, 2014
Thirty-five years ago, some people sighed and rolled their eyes when I told them I was majoring...
November 10, 2014
Writer (and former Paulist priest) James Carroll offers his thoughts on what's ailing the Catholic...
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