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January 2014

January 14, 2014
From Associated Press:  How much does it cost to become a saint? The Vatican said...
January 14, 2014
This could serve as a handy companion piece to my Examination of Conscience for the...
January 14, 2014
Writer Ed Morrissey adds his voice to the chorus of critics taking issue—sometimes passionately—with Jamie...
January 14, 2014
With a H/T to Fr. Duffy, here's a remarkable testimony, in London's The Guardian:  Our...
January 14, 2014
Some insightful and important words from Diane over at Te Deum laudamas:  If all of...
January 14, 2014
Details:  Mayor Bill de Blasio and Cardinal Timothy Dolan today met for the first time...
January 13, 2014
The paper sizes up various headlines of the last few months, and gets some reaction: ...
January 13, 2014
Some promising news from the land of my forebears: the Czech Republic, e once described...
January 13, 2014
Well, now here's something different.  (H/T to the great photog Greg Shemitz, who sent this...
January 13, 2014
Some eyebrows (and some blood pressures) shot up on the news that Pope Francis had...
January 13, 2014
Photo: Charles Lewis/Buffalo News Technically, she's a "pastoral administrator." But her leadership role is essentially...
January 13, 2014
From The Boston Globe:  One freezing winter day when he was a child, Cardinal Sean...
January 13, 2014
The picture below appeared in our diocesan newspaper, The Tablet: The caption: Our Lady Queen...
January 12, 2014
My parish has undertaken a novena to St. Pio—popularly known as "Padre Pio." We've moved...
January 12, 2014
This is something altogether different, from the Buffalo News:  Sam Kolodziej Jr. had a few...
January 12, 2014
From the full text of Bishop Matano's installation homily in Rochester on January 3: Let...
January 12, 2014
From the Vatican news site:  After the Angelus on Sunday, Pope Francis announced the names...
January 11, 2014
Elizabeth Scalia has just posted the response from U.S. News & World Report to mounting...
January 11, 2014
Check out this featurette below, on the upcoming film "The Monuments Men." It looks terrific....
January 11, 2014
The story:  Coleman is essentially deaf. He's been that way since being diagnosed with a...
January 11, 2014
That is how Pope Francis described some priests this morning in his daily homily, reminding...
January 11, 2014
From The Irish Times:  He would have you believe he is just an ordinary Joe,...
January 11, 2014
Your tax dollars at work. Details:  The federal government is stretching your tax dollars —...
January 11, 2014
H/T to Kathy Schiffer for this picture: There's more whacky wedding pictures, along with a...
January 11, 2014
From my homily for this feast from 2013:  At home, I have a little green...
January 10, 2014
Of all the ink that has been spilled over the appalling anti-Catholic screed by Jamie...
January 10, 2014
A noteworthy obit about a noteworthy Brooklyn priest, from The New York Times:  The Rev....
January 10, 2014
From NCR today:  Primarily, I'll be doing the same reporting and analysis I've always done,...
January 10, 2014
Here's an interesting followup to the story that was sparking protests—but it appears this employee's...
January 09, 2014
A freak of nature: this is a blending of a croissant and a bagel. Paris...
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