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August 2014

August 23, 2014
Thank you, Patrick Stewart. Cheers.
August 23, 2014
The good folks at the St. Louis Review have been covering the events unfolding in...
August 23, 2014
The announcement, from the Diocese of Cleveland:  Bishop Richard Lennon, Bishop of Cleveland has announced...
August 23, 2014
Atlanta's diocesan paper, The Georgia Bulletin, this week offers a rare glimpse at the ordination...
August 22, 2014
Somehow, this slipped under the radar today: The Obama administration outlined a new compromise Friday...
August 22, 2014
  My blog neighbor Pia de Solenni takes up that question and offers some very...
August 22, 2014
Far as I know, this is the first time a member of the episcopacy is getting...
August 22, 2014
Not surprising, really:  A former teacher fired for being pregnant filed a lawsuit in Butte...
August 22, 2014
Someone who was held prisoner with the murdered journalist describes life with ISIS in The...
August 21, 2014
Sadly, this doesn't really surprise me.  Details:  I had been on the ground helping Al...
August 21, 2014
Details:  The death of American journalist James Foley at the hands of the Islamic State has been...
August 21, 2014
Details from KTHV in Searcy, Arkansas:  Searcy restaurant Bailey's Pizza is getting national attention for...
August 21, 2014
From the Archdiocese of Detroit:  With sadness and great hope in the Resurrection we share news...
August 21, 2014
Ronald S. Lauder offers us this provocative and stirring piece from yesterday's New York Times:...
August 21, 2014
Elizabeth Scalia, as usual, nails it:  What I have been arguing for in these past...
August 21, 2014
And if you read on, you'll see one of our Patheos bloggers mentioned. Details:  The...
August 20, 2014
From the Facebook page of Channel 11 in Atlanta. While shooting a story at a...
August 20, 2014
A friend from Marquette, Tim Cigelske, posted this on his Facebook page today. It's an...
August 20, 2014
From CNS: In April 2013, the parents of slain U.S. journalist James Foley attended a...
August 20, 2014
And it was all started by a deacon. From the CNEWA blog, One-to-One:  A couple...
August 20, 2014
Chilling details of what is happening in parts of Iraq, via Reuters: When Islamic State...
August 20, 2014
What happened to this man yesterday is beyond imagining. But few accounts of his brave...
August 20, 2014
Details: Some Anchorage pilots may feel safer in the skies now that a Catholic priest...
August 19, 2014
And now for something completely different. I've never seen a story quite like this before....
August 19, 2014
We don't usually think about people in ministry being out of work and struggling to...
August 19, 2014
You may have read about the moral problems of donating to ALSA.org. via the "ice bucket...
August 19, 2014
From the Archdiocese of St. Louis website:  Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, We are...
August 19, 2014
One of the most familiar voices in the world is silent. Details:  Don Pardo, the...
August 18, 2014
From Catholic News Service:  Pope Francis said the use of force can be justified to...
August 18, 2014
This morning, I got an unexpected phone call from Mother Olga of the Sacred Heart,...
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