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April 2018

April 17, 2018
From PRRI research comes these results from a wide-ranging survey about health care: A majority...
April 17, 2018
From the BBC:  The Vatican has opened its doors for its annual exorcism course amid...
April 16, 2018
From the Catholic News Herald:  The Diocese of Charlotte is growing, and Church eagerly awaits...
April 16, 2018
  At Sunday's deacon convocation in the Diocese of Brooklyn, Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio referenced this...
April 16, 2018
This statement was released Saturday: Damascus, 14 April 2018 God is with us; Understand all...
April 16, 2018
We had a superlative turnout for a convocation marking the 50th anniversary of the restoration...
April 15, 2018
From the YouTube description of this event: At this Pastoral Visit to the Roman Parish...
April 15, 2018
Not to be confused with another great Easter perennial, "Jesus Christ is Risen Today," this classic...
April 15, 2018
I spent a wonderful day Saturday with some of the deacons of Bridgeport, Connecticut and...
April 13, 2018
From The New York Times:  The United States and European allies launched strikes against Syrian...
April 13, 2018
Evidently, the kids at Bishop Sullivan High School in Virginia Beach made this video for...
April 13, 2018
I'm not preaching this weekend, but here's something from the vault: my homily for this Sunday...
April 12, 2018
From Washington state: The priest at two Tacoma Catholic churches collapsed while celebrating Mass on...
April 12, 2018
From CNA:  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced questions from lawmakers about his company’s censorship of...
April 12, 2018
From Crux:  Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago and Archbishop José Gómez of Los Angeles, who...
April 11, 2018
Details:  Pope Francis has admitted he made “grave errors” in judgment in Chile’s sex abuse...
April 11, 2018
From CNS:  The Catholic Church in Latin America must recognize and appreciate the role of...
April 11, 2018
I wish I'd gotten more notice about this, but a reader forwarded this email to...
April 11, 2018
A sharp-eyed reader sent this my way, from the page for the permanent diaconate in...
April 11, 2018
  From The Catholic Herald:  Priestly vocations are most likely to flourish among the homeschooled,...
April 10, 2018
This is, quite literally, the sound of silence, in England: It’s not the most obvious...
April 10, 2018
This is a new practice to me, but evidently it's common in some parts of the...
April 09, 2018
From Gallup's website:  Weekly church attendance has declined among U.S. Catholics in the past decade,...
April 09, 2018
From the pope's timely and welcome exhortation released today: 114. We need to recognize and...
April 08, 2018
An interesting development. From the Archdiocese of Philadelphia website:  In July 2014, Saint Mary Parish...
April 08, 2018
It's not unusual to see magazine stories about Mary or the Nativity during the Christmas...
April 08, 2018
The bishops of Missouri have issued a statement on gun violence, and one of the...
April 07, 2018
This great Easter season hymn of Marian devotion and rejoicing returns!  It was sung last...
April 07, 2018
I had a wonderful two days up in Boston, where I was privileged to give...
April 06, 2018
From ANSA, an update on a story that shocked and saddened so many: A 29-year-old...
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