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February 2014

February 24, 2014
From The Bench's Brooklyn Desk comes this news about my own bishop, via CNS:  Catholic...
February 24, 2014
Check this out: And read the analysis from Terry Mattingly.  This is courage. This is...
February 24, 2014
This has been making the rounds for a while. But I think it's worth revisiting...
February 24, 2014
John Allen in today's Boston Globe offers some examples of what can only be called the...
February 24, 2014
Details from National Catholic Reporter:  Pope Francis has approved a set of sweeping moves to...
February 24, 2014
Hot on the heels of that headline-making video presented to evangelicals last week, Pope Francis...
February 23, 2014
A former producer, now a movie reporter for The New York Times, offers his insight: ...
February 23, 2014
Sorry for the long silence: I was away Friday night through Sunday morning at the...
February 23, 2014
From RNS:  In a forceful message to more than 100 scarlet-clad cardinals arrayed before him,...
February 23, 2014
H/T to John Thavis. 
February 21, 2014
Cardinal Raymond Burke has just published an essay that David Gibson says seeks to reassure...
February 21, 2014
That's the assessment of my blog neighbor Kathy Schiffer, who spoke at length with Newark's...
February 21, 2014
Those words kick off this extraordinary video that is rapidly working its way around the...
February 21, 2014
From The Hollywood Reporter:  The Jesus Christ-focused film Son of God doesn't hit theaters until next week,...
February 21, 2014
Details:  In 2012, there were more black babies killed by abortion (31,328) in New York...
February 20, 2014
Details: Ottawa Catholics are no longer able to give eulogies for lost loved ones during...
February 20, 2014
The Archdiocese of Newark has posted a statement regarding the controversy surrounding the archbishop's future home: ...
February 20, 2014
Details:  Nineteen prison inmates from Pisa and Pianosa, Italy, were received by Pope Francis on...
February 19, 2014
Here's a glimpse. Nicaragua's Archbishop Leopoldo Brenes departing for Rome, where he will become a cardinal this...
February 19, 2014
Someone was bound to do it, and here it is. The LA Times explains:  What...
February 19, 2014
From Carol Glatz at CNS comes this great heart-tugger of a story:  Even a jailed...
February 19, 2014
Details from the Montana Standard: An assistant softball coach at Billings Central Catholic School said...
February 19, 2014
From NCR:  Japan's bishops have publicly responded to a Vatican survey of global Catholics' views...
February 19, 2014
Details:  An 84-year-old nun was sentenced Tuesday to nearly three years in prison for breaking into...
February 18, 2014
With everybody swooning giddily over Jimmy Fallon's debut last night on "The Tonight Show," let's...
February 18, 2014
Though there are several important meetings unfolding this week, Vatican watchers may have to keep...
February 18, 2014
  This picture charmed me: Pope Francis doing his job as Bishop of Rome, visiting...
February 18, 2014
The actress and producer discusses the movie with CNS (unfortunately, she doesn't discuss the decision...
February 18, 2014
Details:  A bus full of South Korean Christians who saved money for years in order...
February 18, 2014
Will wonders never cease?  Details from the AP:  Eight times a day, a group of...
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