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March 2014

March 26, 2014
From ZENIT:  The 8th Islamic-Christian Prayer Meeting was held Tuesday, feast of the Annunciation, in...
March 26, 2014
Details:    The Butte Central teacher fired for being pregnant has given birth to a...
March 26, 2014
From The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:  The Cathedral of Christ the King in Buckhead hopes to begin...
March 26, 2014
That's part of what Pope Francis had to say the other day on the subject...
March 26, 2014
Details:  Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of German Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, dubbed the...
March 26, 2014
Image: The Ordination of St. Lawrence by Fra Angelico From Vatican Radio: Greeting thousands of...
March 25, 2014
From The Manchester Union Leader:  Trinity High School senior Bryce Pepin was ready to ask...
March 25, 2014
After a year, L'Osservatore Romano has finally published in English the text of Cardinal Prosper...
March 25, 2014
The good folks at CNS have posted a transcript of that conversation that Sister Cristina...
March 25, 2014
Details from The Journal Star newspaper: Twenty-three years ago, Lincoln Catholic Diocese Bishop Glennon Flavin...
March 24, 2014
From the vault, here's part of a homily from Advent in 2008, with some thoughts...
March 24, 2014
I look forward to reading more of the pope's comments today on the media and...
March 24, 2014
Well, at least the best video of a brother going to visit his sister—ever. Watch...
March 24, 2014
And he receives a special gift from one of them: a toy dinosaur. Watch below.
March 24, 2014
He will be ordained a deacon on Tuesday, and become a priest in June. From...
March 23, 2014
The mind boggles. Details from the Daily Mail:  A high-profile Catholic priest has been suspended...
March 23, 2014
According to USA TODAY, it's this guy: Details: If you were to see Cardinal Seán...
March 23, 2014
Longtime Vatican observer John Thavis, author of the best-selling memoir "The Vatican Diaries," talks with...
March 23, 2014
This looks excellent, coming up in April on Salt + Light. (And I'm not just...
March 22, 2014
Ahead of the president's meeting with Pope Francis, a little backstory, from The New York...
March 22, 2014
It happened in Kansas City, where counter-protesters held signs expressing condolences at the death of...
March 22, 2014
From John Allen in The Boston Globe:  Pope Francis today named Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley...
March 22, 2014
In late February, I received an email from a woman in the Michigan. She had...
March 22, 2014
Those of us of a certain age (cough) can't help but love this. Jimmy Fallon...
March 22, 2014
Try this. Take it away, Peter, Paul and Mary.  From 1966 on the BBC. And...
March 21, 2014
A growing phenomenon in some places, as reported by the Daily Mail:  Purity balls, in...
March 21, 2014
Behold, the nun who is rocking "The Voice" in Italy: A singing, swaying, amazing nun...
March 21, 2014
Here's an issue you don't hear about very much, from the National Catholic Register:  Fifteen-year-old...
March 21, 2014
It happened this week, and ZENIT has the story: Little did Marco Antonio Lome and...
March 20, 2014
It was part of an interview broadcast Tuesday night as part of the TED conference...
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