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April 2014

April 01, 2014
One of the contemporary church's most thoughtful evangelists offers his take on one of the...
April 01, 2014
Just in time for Easter, from The New York Daily News: Two historians claim the...
April 01, 2014
Can you imagine if they showed up at the same party wearing the same outfit?...

March 2014

March 31, 2014
Further evidence that it's a big Church. The Diocese of San Jose has posted the...
March 31, 2014
From The Georgia Bulletin, Archbishop Wilton Gregory responds to sharp criticism surrounding reports about his multi-million...
March 31, 2014
I overheard someone mentioning this on the elevator this afternoon. It happened a couple weeks...
March 31, 2014
Details from AP: A deacon who accidentally fell into a grave during a burial at...
March 31, 2014
David Gibson over at RNS picks up on some interesting observations via Vatican Radio, following...
March 31, 2014
Those are the words inscribed on this logo for the canonization of John XXIII and...
March 31, 2014
I wonder if this could catch on in the Catholic world? Details:  More than a...
March 31, 2014
Are we seeing a "Francis Effect" in American politics?  Check out this story from today's...
March 31, 2014
From his homily this morning: Reflecting on the day’s readings from Isaiah and St John’s...
March 30, 2014
The Russell Crowe epic opened big—the biggest opening week, in fact, in Crowe's estimable career—and...
March 30, 2014
It's unusual to see something like this in a secular paper, but a reader spotted...
March 29, 2014
From The St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  On the second Sunday of Lent, John Hendrix sits in...
March 29, 2014
This press release was posted by the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Freedom: The Chaplain Alliance...
March 29, 2014
Details:  Pope Francis continues to advise Catholics to live frugal lives, but some local parishioners...
March 29, 2014
If you asked me, “who is the most influential Catholic woman in the world right...
March 29, 2014
From The Telegraph:  One of Britain’s most senior Roman Catholic MPs says he feels unable...
March 28, 2014
From HuffPo:  Every day since his son Matthew died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound nearly a year...
March 28, 2014
I don't think I've ever seen a photograph quite like this before: the pope going...
March 28, 2014
From Steven Greydanus at National Catholic Register:  It is not a “Bible movie” in the...
March 28, 2014
Details:  American Catholicism is becoming knitted into a broader Latin American faith. This matters, even...
March 28, 2014
Hot on the heels of a similar move in Cincinnati, Honolulu is updating its teacher...
March 28, 2014
From the Vatican, Pope Francis' remarks to participants in a "Course on the Internal Forum,"...
March 27, 2014
CNS sent out the picture below this morning.  It's unusual, I thought, to see a...
March 27, 2014
Now for something completely different. From a TV station in Lincoln, Nebraska: The 19-year-old who...
March 27, 2014
This item popped up on my Facebook feed this morning. It's from someone I don't...
March 27, 2014
From AP: A visibly energized President Barack Obama held a nearly hourlong audience with Pope...
March 26, 2014
A reader sent this my way tonight. The California congresswoman posted this on Twitter today:...
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