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June 2014

June 25, 2014
Fr. Dwight Longenecker looks at the phenomenon: One of the most discouraging things about religious...
June 25, 2014
When I think of all the insanity that ensues with most weddings at my parish—the...
June 25, 2014
Over at Fr. Robert Barron's excellent "Word on Fire" site, Brandon Vogt has a lengthy...
June 25, 2014
Big news:  Rev David Skillen, a Permanent Deacon from the Diocese of Lancaster is the...
June 25, 2014
Details: Pope Francis held his weekly General Audience on Wednesday – the last before the...
June 24, 2014
  You've seen the wonderful video.  Now, Huffington Post has the story:  Pope Francis immediately...
June 24, 2014
Oops: Read all about it.  H/T Patrick Madrid.
June 24, 2014
Details:  A nursing home run by nuns has not been asked or agreed to take...
June 24, 2014
Details: Mariam Yahya Ibrahim, the Christian woman sentenced to death and later freed after an international...
June 24, 2014
Back in 2008, I preached a homily about St. John the Baptist during Advent.  Today,...
June 24, 2014
12-year-old McKenzie Carey suffers from mitochondrial disease, a close cousin of Parkinson's and ALS. But...
June 24, 2014
Details:  A mother who was freed from death row for refusing to renounce Christianity has been re-arrested...
June 24, 2014
From the In My Backyard Desk, some sensational news, via The Brooklyn Eagle:  The Most...
June 24, 2014
Scenes from my parish's Corpus Christi procession on Sunday, with our pastor, Bishop Paul Sanchez....
June 23, 2014
This is pretty encouraging, from Tim Muldoon via Elizabeth Scalia:  Today Boston College has released the...
June 23, 2014
Awful:  A homeless man sleeping on church steps was kicked in the face and stomped...
June 23, 2014
U.S. Exchange Student Gets Stuck in Vagina Statue at German University 
June 23, 2014
Details:  A Roman Catholic priest convicted of killing a nun at a hospital chapel in...
June 23, 2014
Details from AP: A Sudanese woman on death row for apostasy had her sentence canceled...
June 23, 2014
From Vatican Radio: “I have very much desired this meeting with you who bear the...
June 22, 2014
That's the rough translation of the text accompanying this video, showing Pope Francis making an...
June 22, 2014
It's a refrain I've heard again and again from people everywhere. I hear it from...
June 22, 2014
From Catholic News Agency:  Gregory the Great Academy, a Catholic all-boys boarding school, has graduated...
June 21, 2014
I wrote the following for my parish bulletin this week. It doesn't say anything most...
June 21, 2014
Elizabeth Scalia has posted a typically generous roundup of winners at last night's Catholic Press...
June 21, 2014
The Associated Press published a huge correction for a story that slammed the Catholic Church:...
June 21, 2014
Details, from Reuters:  Pope Francis on Saturday took on one of Italy's most dangerous organized...
June 21, 2014
Over the week, I've posted a few times about the liturgies and events I experienced...
June 21, 2014
From the vault: my Corpus Christi homily from 2009. ++ Back in the 1970s, when...
June 21, 2014
Details from The Catholic Key:  Call them the Lucky Thirteen, but it is the Diocese...
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