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September 2014

September 06, 2014
In midtown Manhattan, near my office, there’s a huge public school on East 56th Street....
September 05, 2014
After New York's volley yesterday, here comes a response. From the Diocese of Peoria: After...
September 05, 2014
The forest has lost another redwood.  A great broadcast writer has died:  Bruce Morton, former...
September 05, 2014
An interesting development, courtesy CNN's Beliefs blog:  The challenge was directed at the leader of...
September 05, 2014
Details:  Venezuela’s Roman Catholic church has admonished the ruling Socialist party for rewriting the Lord’s...
September 04, 2014
I like this new video from the Diocese of Charleston in South Carolina. It's theme...
September 04, 2014
This email arrived in my in box a few moments ago: Joseph Zwilling, Director of...
September 04, 2014
CNS visits a church in Baltimore, St. Vincent de Paul, doing some extraordinary outreach and...
September 03, 2014
Details:  Efforts to canonize Archbishop Fulton Sheen have been suspended indefinitely, the Catholic Diocese of...
September 03, 2014
Here is devotion, fidelity, humility and faith. From The Washington Post:  The secrets that couldn’t...
September 03, 2014
During his audience today, Pope Francis had some consoling words for persecuted Christians in Iraq,...
September 03, 2014
From the CNEWA blog One-to-One: From Iraq, we received a heart-breaking letter from Sister Maria...
September 03, 2014
From Catholic News Service:  Kara Jackson, a 16-year-old altar server from Holy Family Parish in...
September 03, 2014
Details:  A gay group of employees from NBC will march in next year’s New York City St....
September 03, 2014
This time, in Michigan: A former chemistry teacher at a Catholic, all-girls high school in...
September 02, 2014
This unusual new media venture was unveiled today, and The Neiman Journalism Lab looks at what...
September 02, 2014
Details from The New York Times:  The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has beheaded...
September 02, 2014
And what a journey it is: I was raised Jewish. My father and his siblings...
September 02, 2014
From AP:  Diego Maradona and Roberto Baggio were among a host of former soccer stars...
September 01, 2014
If you've been itching for an edition of these prayers for your e-reader, the wait...
September 01, 2014
A couple weeks ago, Fr. Roger Landry wrote a column for his diocesan newspaper in...
September 01, 2014
This is something utterly sweet and heart-tugging: a brief conversation about love and memory between...
September 01, 2014
From Vatican Radio:  Pope Francis called a priest at a refugee camp in Iraq to...
September 01, 2014
Details, from HuffPo:  Muslim leaders in the UK have issued a fatwa condemning British jihadis...
September 01, 2014
Details:  Columbus Police said they've never had anything like it - three churches vandalized in...

August 2014

August 31, 2014
John Allen looks at some recent high-profile bishop appointments and draws some intriguing conclusions in...
August 31, 2014
An interesting glimpse at a growing phenomenon in the American church, via OSV: A million-dollars...
August 30, 2014
Here's a very good video on a main theme in this Sunday's gospel. H/T Connie...
August 30, 2014
In the gospels, it’s been a rough summer for St. Peter. A couple weeks ago,...
August 30, 2014
Details, from Religion News Service:  Christian farm owners in upstate New York who declined a...
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