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April 2014

April 27, 2014
Details:  The Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, has backed the Pope’s call for open and immediate...
April 27, 2014
The New York Times columnist Ross Douthat mulls the implications of Pope Francis's controversial cold...
April 27, 2014
And the problem is particularly acute in Europe. Details:  In the mid-19th century, organists knew...
April 27, 2014
From Pope Francis's homily at the canonizations: The wounds of Jesus are a scandal, a...
April 26, 2014
From the always-interesting John Thavis:  The record-setting speed of John Paul II’s canonization does, indeed,...
April 26, 2014
From The Boston Globe's John Allen:  As he prepares to declare two revered 20th-century pontiffs...
April 26, 2014
This video should give all of us pause. Details:  In a video produced by ad...
April 26, 2014
It happened in the UK:  A headmaster was sacked from his job at a top...
April 26, 2014
With canonization fever under way, I thought it would be a good time to remember...
April 25, 2014
From the vault, here's part of a homily I delivered in 2011, on the occasion...
April 25, 2014
And that's not all. Details:  With popularity of Bible-themed projects showing no signs of subsiding, Fox has...
April 25, 2014
Notable coverage of an issue that demands our attention, via The New York Times: The...
April 25, 2014
Deacon Bill Ditewig, in Rome for the canonizations, found the most important spot in the...
April 25, 2014
With events in Ukraine continuing to dominate the headlines, and crosses like the one above...
April 25, 2014
From The Boss:
April 25, 2014
You may remember when this made news a few weeks back. Now, some teachers are...
April 24, 2014
A different perspective on the impending canonizations, from a Jewish news service, JTA:  Popes John...
April 24, 2014
CNS has a very good video looking at the phenomenon of chapel veils coming back...
April 24, 2014
And here's some of what the president had to say about the pontiff: Rare is...
April 24, 2014
Details:  There’s a quiet room at St. Aloysius Church in Leonardtown named after St. Lawrence....
April 24, 2014
Details:  The director of the Holy See Press Office, Fr Federico Lombardi, has responded to...
April 24, 2014
From The Hollywood Reporter:  Lifetime is going inside a Catholic convent for its newest docuseries....
April 23, 2014
From The Manchester Union Leader in New Hampshire: The one-time top ranking priest in the...
April 23, 2014
From CBS News:  Sean McCreight has a passion for teaching. But the 25-year-old California native...
April 23, 2014
So I arrived at work to find this banner in the lobby of the Cardinal...
April 23, 2014
Details:  Pope Francis has phoned a divorced and remarried Catholic woman in Argentina to tell...
April 23, 2014
You may remember this story from just last week.  The priest at the center of...
April 22, 2014
This is pretty remarkable, when you think about it, from the National Catholic Register:  Msgr....
April 22, 2014
A reader sent me the graph above, from the New York City Independent Budget Office,...
April 22, 2014
Details: Ted Neeley, the original lead in “Jesus Christ Superstar”, is back four decades on...
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