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September 2018

September 11, 2018
Details:  The crisis of sexual abuse is “the Catholic Church’s September 11”. This was said by...
September 11, 2018
From today:  In his homily at Mass on Tuesday morning, Pope Francis said it seems...
September 11, 2018
You may remember this story from a few days ago, regarding a California priest who...
September 10, 2018
The Chicago Sun-Times reports:  The young man studying at Mundelein Seminary to become a Catholic...
September 10, 2018
From The Tablet in London: The Vatican is preparing to issue a response to an...
September 09, 2018
Florida Catholic profiled them last month:  The long journey of discernment, study, formation and sacrifice...
September 09, 2018
A pastor friend posted this on Facebook today: a statement he made at all the...
September 09, 2018
From The Washington Post:  A highly visible member of Washington’s Catholic clergy has made a dramatic...
September 08, 2018
Whether my planning or by coincidence, this great rafter-raising hymn is our entrance song this...
September 08, 2018
Among the facts posted recently by Pew:  There are roughly 51 million Catholic adults in...
September 07, 2018
From CNS:  A top official from the Vatican Secretariat of State acknowledged allegations made by...
September 07, 2018
This is pretty great:  Hundreds of people – priests, brother deacons, Carmelite nuns and laity...
September 06, 2018
The following statement was released today by Albany Bishop Ed Scharfenberger: My Dear Brothers and...
September 06, 2018
Legatus is a large and growing lay organization of Catholic business people founded by Thomas...
September 06, 2018
From The Omaha World-Herald:  Open your files. This is the directive the Nebraska Attorney General’s...
September 05, 2018
A beloved priest in California faces a terrible diagnosis: Father John Vieira gathers with the...
September 05, 2018
From an interview with The Daily Caller: President Donald Trump expressed sadness over the ongoing...
September 05, 2018
This subject is coming up again now, as the Church wrestles with how to deal...
September 04, 2018
This is pretty great news, in an email from the International Diaconate Center:  During the...
September 04, 2018
From CNN: Pope Francis met with embattled Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington last Thursday in...
September 04, 2018
With so much of the world right now dealing with scandal, outrage, polarization and...
September 04, 2018
This story is rapidly making the rounds on social media. Rod Dreher had the story...
September 03, 2018
A Catholic blogger by the name of Steven O'Keefe put this account together, and it's...
September 03, 2018
An interesting development—and historic: The Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate has decided to allow...
September 03, 2018
Writer Michael Cook offers some welcome sanity in the middle of the never-ending McCarrick-Viganò-Francis-media merry-go-round,...
September 03, 2018
After a summer break, the pope today resumed celebrating daily Mass—and had a few choice...
September 02, 2018
A powerful gesture, from Albany's Bishop Edward Scharfenberger:  In a letter issued on Aug. 31,...
September 02, 2018
From the Daily Mail:  Heart melting footage shows the moment a father is reunited with...
September 02, 2018
Last week, I found myself in a small Vietnamese restaurant in midtown Manhattan, sharing a...
September 02, 2018
My friend Father Michael Duffy from the Diocese of Rockville Centre posted this letter in...
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