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May 2018

May 23, 2018
From the In My Backyard Desk, via the Rockville Centre website:  Most Reverend John O....
May 23, 2018
From Aleteia: Cardinal Robert Sarah has become the “proto-deacon”: that is to say that in...
May 23, 2018
From Australia:  They say practice makes perfect, and the saying couldn’t be truer for Brisbane’s...
May 22, 2018
That's the central point that canonist Ed Peters makes in his post today, but he...
May 22, 2018
Judging from this trailer, the new CBS series "God Friended Me" looks really promising. Who'da...
May 22, 2018
Details:  An Australian archbishop was convicted on Tuesday of covering up a claim of sexual...
May 22, 2018
The popular Catholic radio host — I've been on his show a couple times — spent...
May 22, 2018
From The Catholic Anchor Facebook page:  Five years of discernment, formation, and study culminated with...
May 21, 2018
Amazing. Check out the video below. "Before I formed you in the womb I knew...
May 21, 2018
A priest posed that question to a friend several weeks ago, at the start of...
May 21, 2018
The image here comes from St. James Cathedral in Orlando. I took it last year...
May 21, 2018
Some surprising news out of Ireland regarding a prominent politician. It amazes me that something...
May 20, 2018
From CNS:  Pope Francis announced he would make 14 new cardinals June 29, giving the...
May 20, 2018
What a story, via The Catholic Register in Canada: For Mark Neugebauer, his journey to...
May 19, 2018
So I'm here in Bay Shore, New York, some 40 miles east of Queens and...
May 19, 2018
From the sensational sermon by the Most Rev. Michael Curry, the first African American to...
May 18, 2018
Details:  Every Chilean bishop offered to resign Friday over a sex abuse and cover-up scandal,...
May 18, 2018
Details:  Police have made an arrest after a historic statue of the Virgin Mary outside...
May 17, 2018
The following press release landed in my mailbox a short time ago: Thousands of young...
May 17, 2018
An interesting development, as reported by The Washington Post:  Offering warm greetings on Ramadan and...
May 17, 2018
From The New York Times:  The fertility rate in the United States fell to a...
May 16, 2018
From The New York Times:  President Trump lashed out at undocumented immigrants during a White...
May 16, 2018
From The Buffalo News:  Someone smashed a statue of Mary outside an East Side Catholic...
May 16, 2018
The hardworking staff of The Compass has thoughtfully posted on Facebook over 60 pictures of...
May 15, 2018
The poignant video above shows the caskets arriving in Cairo yesterday. The story, from...
May 14, 2018
From CNS:  The Vatican has given its permission for the opening of the sainthood cause...
May 14, 2018
The CBS News program "60 Minutes" last night aired an interview with director Wim Wenders,...
May 13, 2018
I haven't seen any images yet, but The Catholic Globe reported last month: After almost...
May 13, 2018
This is a must-read, from America magazine: On the day after Easter, five incarcerated women...
May 13, 2018
The local press offered this preview: Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, will ordain...
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