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August 2018

August 31, 2018
Edward Pentin, who broke the story last week, adds this tidbit today about one of...
August 31, 2018
From the great Deacon Bill Ditewig, who finds a call to humility and compassion in...
August 31, 2018
Just days ago, you'll recall, the university announced it was removing the names of some...
August 31, 2018
The embattled cardinal archbishop of Washington sent the following letter to his priests, which was...
August 31, 2018
From Canada's The Catholic Register newspaper: Even as he faces another sex abuse case in...
August 30, 2018
From CNA: The Archdiocese of Washington has confirmed that seminarians were permitted to serve as...
August 30, 2018
This was released yesterday, from the school's president Jim Towey:  There is nothing new about...
August 30, 2018
Via The Cincinnati Enquirer: Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Patrick Dinkelacker sent serial killer Anthony...
August 30, 2018
The terrific Father Goyo Hidalgo from Simi Valley, California, posted this on his Facebook page....
August 30, 2018
A couple weeks ago, a parishioner who follows this blog asked me if she could...
August 30, 2018
A glimpse at another side of the late war hero, via Maeve Reston at CNN: He...
August 30, 2018
Elizabeth Bruenig of The Washington Post describes her efforts to interview former Cardinal McCarrick—and says...
August 29, 2018
Something heartening and unexpected: an editorial in support of the Catholic faithful, from a secular...
August 28, 2018
That's how The New York Times describes Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò in a new report out...
August 28, 2018
The source is a German newspaper. Translation is below. Details:  Archbishop Georg Gänswein, private secretary...
August 28, 2018
The New York Times has reaction to the recent bombshell—and some of the backstory behind...
August 27, 2018
From The Archdiocese of Washington website: Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, a former Apostolic Nuncio to...
August 27, 2018
This is something exceptional, from my longtime Facebook friend Bishop Robert Reed in Boston, a...
August 27, 2018
John Allen puts the weekend's big news into welcome perspective: Over and over again on...
August 26, 2018
From Catholic News Service:  Pope Francis said Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano's long document calling on...
August 26, 2018
Hours after the story broke, we now have the first significant episcopal response to the...
August 26, 2018
Some good news, for a change! Bishop Gerald Barnes ordained the 11 men on Saturday...
August 25, 2018
From Edward Pentin at the National Catholic Register:  In an extraordinary 11-page written testament, a...
August 25, 2018
That question is now being asked, more frequently and more insistently, as newspapers and social...
August 25, 2018
In my travels around the country, I've encountered a few places where the bishop has...
August 25, 2018
Details:  Tim Conway — best known for roles on “McHale’s Navy” and “The Carol Burnett Show”...
August 25, 2018
This didn't get much attention when the story broke earlier in the week, but it's...
August 25, 2018
From CNS:  Acknowledging the failures "of bishops, religious superiors, priests and others" in the Catholic...
August 24, 2018
The calls for the bishop's resignation come in the wake of an investigation by TV...
August 24, 2018
This homily was delivered by the Rev. Matthew Kauth, rector St. Joseph College Seminary in the...
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