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October 2014

October 17, 2014
From RNS: The Blood of Christ will not be offered during Mass. The Host will be placed...
October 17, 2014
If anyone is interested, I'll be visiting St. James Catholic Church in Setauket this Sunday on...
October 17, 2014
From CNS:  Cardinal George Pell said working-group reports from the Synod of Bishops on the...
October 17, 2014
Details:  Pope Francis has for the first time allowed the Sistine Chapel to be rented...
October 17, 2014
This story sparked a lot of discussion earlier in the week. Now, the mayor appears...
October 17, 2014
The Pew Research Center finds a link between their latest survey and what they perceive...
October 16, 2014
A lot of people have sought to make comparisons between the current synod and Vatican II....
October 16, 2014
This story caused a storm yesterday, and now German media report the cardinal's response (translation...
October 16, 2014
From the Catholic World Report:  Two minutes into the press briefing at the Vatican press...
October 16, 2014
For those who missed it...New York's Cardinal Timothy Dolan spoke with CNS about the church...
October 15, 2014
Here's an interesting take on the relatio, from Catholic News Agency:  An incorrect translation into...
October 15, 2014
Am I the only one who thinks it might be a good idea for Cardial...
October 15, 2014
Is this what we have come to? From The Houston Chronicle:  Houston's embattled equal rights...
October 15, 2014
Bishop Robert Vasa, from the Diocese of Santa Rosa, has looked over the relatio, and...
October 15, 2014
Details:  Alarmed by the broad expansion of same-sex marriage set in motion by the U.S....
October 14, 2014
We've been hearing a lot the last couple days about the theological concept of "gradualism."  Critics...
October 14, 2014
Here's something different, via CNS:  The head of the Armed Forces of the Philippines Oct....
October 14, 2014
That's Fr. Robert Barron, quoting Cardinal Newman. Fr. Barron today brings to all the hand-wringing...
October 14, 2014
My friend Deacon John Gerke of Cincinnati was the victim of a break-in at his home...
October 14, 2014
This just in: The General Secretariat of the Synod, in response to reactions and discussions...
October 14, 2014
From this morning's homily:  Pope Francis said Mass on Tuesday morning in the chapel of...
October 13, 2014
Check it out here, from the PBS News Hour:
October 13, 2014
From The Dallas Morning News:  Dallas nurse Nina Pham received a blood transfusion from another...
October 13, 2014
In what may be an especially timely commentary, given events of the last few hours,...
October 13, 2014
I forgive you, John Oliver, for disliking All Things Pumpkin because you're just so damn...
October 13, 2014
That's how veteran Vatican reporter John Thavis described a document released this morning: In pastoral terms,...
October 12, 2014
A little analysis in the pages of America, from Gerard O'Connell: Participants who have attended...
October 12, 2014
With all the talk lately about divorce and communion, I've been reminded of how much...
October 11, 2014
Last weekend, I was in Seattle, Washington, to speak to a group of deacons from...
October 11, 2014
You may remember this item from a couple weeks back. Now, the exhibit has been...
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