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December 2018

December 26, 2018
For a country that is overwhelmingly Muslim, with only a small minority of Christians, this...
December 25, 2018
You hear about these things from time to time, but I've never heard of an...
December 25, 2018
Christmas Eve, I was invited to offer the invocation at the annual Forest Hills Christmas...
December 24, 2018
Probably the most memorable Christmas Eve I can recall was the night I proposed to...
December 24, 2018
Details:  A Brooklyn priest killed himself inside a church rectory less than two weeks before...
December 23, 2018
The New York Times columnist (and convert) offers a hope-filled and eloquent testimony of faith...
December 22, 2018
This could be one of the great, defining questions of Advent, when an astonished Elizabeth...
December 22, 2018
Amid all the controversy surrounding the Vatican's new relationship with China, this detail is one...
December 22, 2018
I grew up hearing this rendition by the immortal Maurice Chevalier, sung in English and...
December 22, 2018
From CNS:  A Michigan priest criticized for emphasizing suicide in his homily during a recent...
December 22, 2018
The good people at the BBC have put together a documentary on the legendary King's...
December 22, 2018
Details:  Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have questioned a candidate for the federal bench...
December 21, 2018
Yesterday, I received an email from Deacon Jim Lee, from Eagle River, Alaska. His parish...
December 20, 2018
After all the controversy swirling around the funeral homily for a young man in Detroit,...
December 20, 2018
The Los Angeles Times has the details:  The Archdiocese of Los Angeles knew for at...
December 20, 2018
From the In My Backyard Desk, some news from a historic parish, the first in...
December 20, 2018
And it was done, in large part, because of a parish in Florida. Details:  Religious...
December 20, 2018
Via The New York Times:  The Catholic Church in Illinois withheld the names of at...
December 19, 2018
From CNS:  Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of 69-year-old Auxiliary Bishop Alexander Salazar of...
December 19, 2018
Slate takes a look at of the controversy surrounding that homily delivered at the funeral...
December 18, 2018
I get asked this question a lot: "What's happening with the commission on women deacons?"...
December 18, 2018
This is awesome:  He has a certificate from Santa School in Denver, Colorado, but Issa...
December 18, 2018
From CNS: In today's climate of mistrust, rejection and nationalism, the world urgently needs peacemakers...
December 17, 2018
Here's a blast from the past. Growing up, this was the soundtrack of Christmas. I...
December 17, 2018
Ed Peters has the scoop:  If the text recently sent to me really was the homily that Fr....
December 17, 2018
After reading the diocesan report of slumping Mass attendance, what is a priest to do?...
December 17, 2018
The Friendly Atheist takes note of a little detail that some might consider a Christmas...
December 16, 2018
The archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Bernard Hebda, posted a letter on the matter...
December 16, 2018
Well, this was different. Before Mass today, one of the priests was casting about for...
December 15, 2018
I've posted stories about this tireless priest in the past — most recently, about his...
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