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March 2014

March 10, 2014
Look who just arrived for his Lenten retreat outside of Rome. From Vatican Radio: Pope...
March 10, 2014
From a new Pew study: The Millennial generation is forging a distinctive path into adulthood....
March 10, 2014
From BBC:  A group of Greek Orthodox nuns held for three months by rebels in...
March 10, 2014
Details:  During his Sunday morning service, Ulf Ekman announced the he and his wife, Birgitta, are converting...
March 10, 2014
Author Peter Manseau looks at that question in The New York Times:  Even as the...
March 10, 2014
Several people alerted me to this over the weekend. It's a compelling, balanced look at...
March 09, 2014
Just returned from a trip to snowy Ohio. I'll post more in the next day...
March 08, 2014
At St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Fremont, OH, the pastor discovered an old black pall...
March 06, 2014
This is just too good not to share. Guy gives a homeless man a bogus...
March 06, 2014
That's the title of a one-day retreat I'll be giving Saturday at Our Lady of...
March 05, 2014
The scene this morning at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los...
March 05, 2014
The good people at Legatus Magazine invited me to write a few words about fasting...
March 05, 2014
With Deacon Bill McNamara, my classmate and the DRE at my parish.  
March 05, 2014
From Vatican Radio:  Less than two weeks shy of one year on from his election...
March 04, 2014
From CNS:  U.S. Catholics stand in solidarity with the people of Ukraine as their country...
March 04, 2014
From USA TODAY:  An honor student and athlete who claims her parents threw her out...
March 04, 2014
The other day, I read an interview with a woman in Lebanon, Sister Micheline Lattouf. ...
March 04, 2014
Get a load of this:  An article on Jan. 20, 1853, recounting the story of Solomon Northup,...
March 04, 2014
An alert reader found this news online: Chick-Fil-A is introducing a fish sandwich for Lent. ...
March 04, 2014
Behold:  You know that whole, “refusing to serve someone because they think differently than you...
March 04, 2014
Wow. Just...wow. First, helicopter drones delivering books for Amazon, now this. Behold the concept for...
March 04, 2014
From The Lowell Sun: A Catholic school in Harvard has withdrawn from the South Boston...
March 04, 2014
From The Wall Street Journal:  The Catholic Church is gearing up for an expected tough...
March 03, 2014
A great big H/T to Terry Mattingly over at Get Religion, who unearthed this nugget...
March 03, 2014
Our Anglican siblings have been promoting this idea for a few years: On Ash Wednesday...
March 03, 2014
My blog neighbor Tony Rossi watched the Oscars last night so the rest of us...
March 03, 2014
So says this video from Rome Reports, which notes: During the audience with the members of...
March 03, 2014
Photo: Tami Chappell for The New York Times From The New York Times:   The young...
March 02, 2014
From last week's CBS Evening News. Beautiful. Heartbreaking. And wondrous.
March 02, 2014
Maybe:  Universal’s Non-Stop, starring Liam Neeson, surged ahead to take the lead in the weekend box...
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