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August 11, 2018
Ordination update: 1 new deacon for Madison
My friend Deacon Jim Hoegemeier sent this my way late last month, and I regret...
August 10, 2018
BREAKING: O’Malley opens investigation into Boston seminary, puts rector on leave
From CNS: The Archbishop of Boston said in an Aug. 10 statement that he has...
August 10, 2018
Ordination update: 1 new deacon for Austin — UPDATED
I had heard about this story a few days ago, and today received an email...
August 10, 2018
Richard Sipe dies
From The New York Times: A. W. Richard Sipe, a researcher, psychotherapist and former priest...
August 09, 2018
Bishop Barron speaks out on the ‘McCarrick Mess’
The American Church's most visible evangelist, Bishop Robert Barron, weighs in: Permit me to say...
August 09, 2018
Sensational pro-life video: ‘I have loved you for a thousand years…’
This is just beautiful: A group of 50 mums of kids with Down syndrome...
August 09, 2018
The current crisis: what can we do?
Elizabeth Scalia has some clear-eyed, concrete ideas: We feel lost, but we mustn’t. God is...
August 09, 2018
‘Something very important is missing from every statement issued by the U.S. bishops…’
A very good observation this morning from Dawn Eden Goldstein: Something very important is missing...
August 09, 2018
Argentina rejects abortion
Encouraging news from the pope's homeland: Argentina’s Senate on Thursday narrowly rejected a bill to...
August 08, 2018
When Francis met Sting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=d2SpMsqIDbg Pope Francis chatted briefly with Sting after the General Audience on Wednesday — see...
August 07, 2018
New bishop on the McCarrick scandal: ‘It is almost unbearable. This cannot continue.’
I had the privilege of breaking bread with Jefferson City's Bishop Shawn McKnight during our...
August 07, 2018
California bishop bans Communion Services in the Absence of a Priest
From the Diocese of Santa Rosa comes this directive from Bishop Robert Vasa: In the...
August 06, 2018
‘Dear Bishops, please pay attention…’ — UPDATED
Elizabeth Scalia notes some news out of Washington this morning — and says what a...
August 06, 2018
‘We need an image of Christ the Servant’: How Dachau led to the restored diaconate
An important piece of history more people should know about, via CNS: Dachau, the notorious...
August 04, 2018
Hymn of the Week: ‘I Am the Bread of Life’
Here's a rapturous bilingual version of this contemporary classic, from the always-great University of Notre...
August 03, 2018
CARA survey: most religious superiors believe Catholic Church should ordain women as deacons
From the press release: CARA, The Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown...
August 03, 2018
Nebraska’s Catholic governor says change in catechism won’t stop execution
From The New York Times: When Nebraska lawmakers defied Gov. Pete Ricketts in 2015 by...
August 02, 2018
The pope’s change on the death penalty: a roundup of reaction
Reaction has been varied. Here's a sampling, below. “Already in the past, the church had...
August 02, 2018
Meet the Brooklyn priest getting an MBA at Berkeley
Someone asks in this story, "What’s a priest going to do with an MBA in...
August 02, 2018
BREAKING: Pope Francis changes Catholic teaching on death penalty
In the current edition of the catechism, the teaching on the death penalty reads: 2267 Assuming...
August 02, 2018
Michigan Catholic newspaper to close
Sad news, from The Detroit Free Press: The Michigan Catholic, one of the state's oldest...
August 01, 2018
A priest’s open letter to McCarrick: ‘You had no right…’
From Father Mark White—formerly of the Archdiocese of Washington but now in Richmond—via his blog...
August 01, 2018
‘Unprecedented and stunning’: bishop orders names of accused clergy to be removed from buildings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=ED5ihBG4dGM From PennLive.com: In an unprecedented and stunning move, the head of the Diocese of...
August 01, 2018
Why don’t more Americans go to church? It’s complicated.
From a new survey by Pew: In recent years, the percentage of U.S. adults who...
August 01, 2018
‘We have to be radically open’: Baltimore’s ambitious plan for its basilica and its neighborhood
This sounds like a sensational idea. From The Catholic Review: Watching the heavy iron gates...
July 2018
July 31, 2018
An archbishop writes to his flock: ‘The bitter fruits of the sexual revolution continue to wreak havoc’
From Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City: In response to recent allegations regarding former Cardinal...
July 31, 2018
Delaware priest attacked, doused with wine at rectory office
Details: Pastor William Graney and another Resurrection Parish staff member were assaulted on Monday at...
July 31, 2018
Meet the ‘Rosary Runners’ of Alta Loma, California
Now for something different, via The Inland Catholic Byte in the Diocese of San Bernardino:...
July 30, 2018
In a first, Catholic University rescinds honorary degree to McCarrick
The press release: On June 20, 2018 the Archdiocese of New York reported that it...
July 30, 2018
Zumba, Led Zeppelin, fetish parties: what has happened to Montreal’s Catholic churches
From The New York Times: For generations, parishioners whispered their sins in the dark wooden...
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