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May 2014

May 13, 2014
The Satanic Temple folks late last night were trying to suggest that maybe it did—but...
May 12, 2014
From the Harvard Crimson: The Harvard Extension School Cultural Studies Club has dropped its sponsorship...
May 12, 2014
Sharp and funny words of wisdom from Pope Francis today:   Pope Francis told seminarians not...
May 12, 2014
Frank Weathers has the scoop: The Harvard Extension School Cultural Studies Club said it will...
May 12, 2014
What to give the priest or deacon who has everything.
May 12, 2014
From a newspaper in Alaska.It doesn't get much worse than this. Read all about it...
May 12, 2014
From First Things, here's an essay that looks at the recent Pew Study about Hispanic...
May 12, 2014
I was intrigued to stumble upon an interesting factoid on Wikipedia this morning: Drew Faust,...
May 12, 2014
From The Anchoress:  The reenactment of a ‘black mass’ planned by a student group affiliated...
May 12, 2014
The subject came up during his daily homily this morning: "Who are we to close...
May 11, 2014
From the Vatican Radio:  “Bother your pastors, disturb your pastors, all of us pastors, so...
May 11, 2014
From The Salt Lake Tribune:  To any guilt-prone women, the annual idealization of motherhood that...
May 10, 2014
From Rocco:  It's been expected for months... and this morning, it's official: continuing his predecessors'...
May 10, 2014
I can't imagine this getting very far, but you never know. Details:  On Monday, the U.S....
May 10, 2014
On a spring morning in 2010, a young man by the name of Dayan Machado...
May 10, 2014
Over the past few days, some readers have asked me what I thought of this...
May 10, 2014
You may remember  that Oakland teachers are being required to sign a new contract similar...
May 09, 2014
From the Social Security Administration, via USA TODAY, here they are: Noah ended Jacob's 14-year...
May 09, 2014
From The Louisville Courier-Journal: Nestled on 2,200 acres in the hills of Nelson County, the...
May 09, 2014
From the Associated Press:  Citing history textbooks, national parks and landmarks that mostly leave women...
May 09, 2014
Make of this what you will. But this strikes me as something new on Catholic...
May 09, 2014
Details from Catholic News Agency:  Fr. Michael Drea, senior chaplain at the Harvard Catholic Student...
May 09, 2014
The background: When a couple learned their infant son would die soon after he was...
May 09, 2014
From Vatican Insider:  The Man of the Shroud “underwent an under glenoidal dislocation of the...
May 08, 2014
From Reuters:  The Roman Catholic Church in Jerusalem, preparing for a visit by Pope Francis...
May 08, 2014
From Religion News Service:  Speaking at a gathering of local atheists, humanists, freethinkers and other...
May 08, 2014
And, evidently, she's now got fans with t-shirts celebrating her partnership with J-Ax. From CNS's...
May 07, 2014
The Anchoress has the scoop:  The Catholic community in the Archdiocese of Boston expresses its...
May 07, 2014
From the Pew Research Center:  Most Hispanics in the United States continue to belong to...
May 07, 2014
Hot on the heels of the story that broke yesterday, a swift reversal:  Following the...
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