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June 2018

June 23, 2018
This past week, as we’ve watched the news unfolding on our southern border, we’ve been...
June 22, 2018
Here's a great piece from The Witness, the newspaper of the Archdiocese of Dubuque, noting...
June 22, 2018
This broke yesterday, on his return flight from Geneva. From CNS:  The question of allowing...
June 22, 2018
This really is some great detective work. The terrific CBS News correspondent David Begnaud (whose...
June 21, 2018
I was delighted to find the shiny new incarnation of Deacon Digest online earlier today...
June 21, 2018
I was just reminded that the great NBC News reporter Tim Russert died 10 years...
June 21, 2018
From Pew:  Restrictions on religion around the world continued to climb in 2016, according to...
June 20, 2018
From Catholic New York newspaper: Nearly 800 New York Catholic priests received a message about...
June 20, 2018
Bombshell, from NCR:  In a shocking announcement, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who served as the archbishop...
June 20, 2018
Last week, Bishop Edward Weisenburger of Tucson made headlines at the USCCB meeting for...
June 19, 2018
Details: More than 600 members of the United Methodist Church have issued a formal complaint...
June 19, 2018
From Bridgeport Bishop Frank Caggiano:  As our nation continues to grapple with the practice of...
June 19, 2018
It's not often you hear a Hollywood speech like this one. Actor Chris Pratt —...
June 18, 2018
While in Wisconsin for the Catholic Media Conference, I got to attend Mass at Green...
June 18, 2018
 Seriously. Read on, via CNA:  Every single vocation story is different, but Sr. Rita Clare...
June 18, 2018
Details from CatholicPhilly.com:  Sixteen men drawn from various walks of life — chemist, doctor, driver,...
June 17, 2018
The former top advisor to President Trump went on ABC News This Week on Sunday...
June 17, 2018
Somehow this slipped off my radar screen, but the man who was a legend among...
June 17, 2018
Details:  White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said Sunday “nobody likes” the Trump administration’s policy of separating...
June 17, 2018
From an op-ed in today's New York Times by Charles Camosy, of Democrats for Life:...
June 16, 2018
From CNA:   In a speech to a family association Saturday, Pope Francis again stressed that...
June 16, 2018
This is our communion hymn at my parish this week — appropriate, given the Gospel...
June 16, 2018
As I mentioned on Corpus Christi, in smallness there is greatness.  And Sunday's scripture reminds...
June 16, 2018
A statement released Friday from the bishops of New Mexico: As bishops of a border...
June 15, 2018
The bishop of Tucson made the proposal earlier this week, and launched a firestorm of...
June 15, 2018
Details:  Adapting to day-to-day life without a full-time Catholic priest has become a reality in...
June 14, 2018
Yesterday, the Catholic Media Conference, unfolding this week in Green Bay, Wisconsin, sponsored a mini-pilgrimage...
June 13, 2018
While visiting Green Bay, Wisconsin for the Catholic Media Conference, I took a few moments...
June 13, 2018
From The Catholic Herald:  With the youth synod only a few months away, a major...
June 12, 2018
From the BBC:  Irish hospitals with a Catholic ethos will be expected to carry out...
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