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January 2019

January 10, 2019
The Catholic actor best known for "Bella" and his passionate pro-life work launching his most...
January 10, 2019
From The Washington Post:  Vatican investigators have finished collecting evidence in the sexual abuse case...
January 09, 2019
From The New York Times:   When Larry Antonsen decided to report a priest who sexually...
January 09, 2019
This is great:   "Overeating destroyed my body,” Fr. Ryan Rooney says. “At my highest weight...
January 09, 2019
Details:  The radical-traditionalist Catholic group the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is now...
January 08, 2019
This image popped up on my Facebook feed the other day, depicting the sanctuary at...
January 07, 2019
From The Washington Post:  The Catholic community Opus Dei in 2005 paid $977,000 to settle...
January 07, 2019
An interesting detail opens this afternoon's report by The New York Times:  Vice President Mike...
January 05, 2019
From my Patheos neighbor and friend Father Matthew Schneider, a great witness from a seminarian...
January 05, 2019
From News 12 Connecticut: Police officers on patrol in Bridgeport discovered a swastika on the...
January 05, 2019
From The Times of London:  Almost everything about services at St Bartholomew the Great church...
January 04, 2019
The following item popped up on the Facebook page of Holy Apostles Seminary in Connecticut:...
January 04, 2019
Details:  The Vatican has confirmed that an Argentine bishop, who resigned suddenly in 2017 for...
January 03, 2019
Details from CNS:  German Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising called for change in...
January 03, 2019
I got an email from a woman recently, inquiring about having a child baptized at...
January 03, 2019
From CNS:  The clerical abuse crisis and the "crisis of credibility" it created for the...
January 02, 2019
As we get ready for Epiphany, and prepare to hear again the Gospel account of...
January 02, 2019
Prayerful good wishes to Andrew Petiprin, former Episcopal priest who on the first day of...
January 01, 2019
Check this out, from the good people at the Archdiocese of Edmonton in Canada. The...
January 01, 2019
Every year, it is the deacon's privilege to announce the dates of the Church's moveable...

December 2018

December 31, 2018
Earlier this month, Google Surveys asked 1,000 people what their resolutions were for 2019 –...
December 31, 2018
This is huge. The unexpected announcement came via tweet this morning, noting that both Burke...
December 30, 2018
This lead story in The Washington Post caught my eye this morning, and also caught...
December 30, 2018
Check out this video from Robert Duncan at CNS. This offers a glimpse at some...
December 29, 2018
This story from CBS News's Steve Hartman is just fantastic. Just watch.
December 28, 2018
Details:  A conservative Episcopal priest, who is a top administrator in the Tennessee diocese, is leaving...
December 27, 2018
It happens every year around this time, so now seems as good a time as...
December 27, 2018
Details:  Members of Our Lady of Lavang Parish in Portland, Oregon did not let an...
December 27, 2018
This bears watching. From The Washington Post:  In response to recent Catholic Church clergy sex...
December 26, 2018
"Yesterday we celebrated the birth in time of our eternal King. Today we celebrate the...
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