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March 2018

March 08, 2018
From the archdiocesan newspaper Chicago Catholic:  One evening I was having dinner with a friend...
March 08, 2018
From National Catholic Register:  The culture assumes celibacy is unhealthy, repressive, and gamophobic, but is...
March 08, 2018
This is a novel idea—and a great one. From CNS:  In light of this year’s...
March 08, 2018
CNA recently interviewed Monsignor Ricardo Urioste, Archbishop Oscar Romero's vicar general, who offers some insight into...
March 08, 2018
Details:  Meghan Markle has been baptised into the Church of England in a secret ceremony...
March 07, 2018
From The Tablet in the U.K.: Pope Francis has donated 100,000 euros (£90,000) towards the...
March 07, 2018
Big news:  Pope Francis has given the green light for martyred Archbishop Oscar Romero to...
March 06, 2018
Details:  Retired Bishop David Foley, former head of the Catholic Diocese of Birmingham from 1994-2005,...
March 06, 2018
It's never too early, brother deacons. Here's part of a commentary on this great chant,...
March 06, 2018
From Pew:  Five years into Francis’ papacy, the vast majority of U.S. Catholics continue to...
March 06, 2018
John Allen at Crux has the scoop: Adding specificity to what was already known about...
March 05, 2018
An online petition is calling for that—and it's reportedly garnered thousands of signatures:   Thousands...
March 05, 2018
An amazing story of tenacity, survival and grit: Airman 1st Class Guor Maker fled war...
March 05, 2018
From Vatican News:  As Cardinal Walter Kasper turns 85, the former President of the Pontifical...
March 04, 2018
Details:  The New Arab has gained evidence of Syrian regime forces, who previously held control of...
March 04, 2018
Details:  Meghan Markle is due to be christened sometime in March in preparation for her wedding...
March 04, 2018
It's been years in the planning, and Saturday, it finally became a reality. Details:  More...
March 03, 2018
The news comes from the Archdiocese of Washington. It was announced a couple days ago...
March 03, 2018
From the vault, from one of my favorite homilies, about one of my favorite Gospels:...
March 03, 2018
This is our entrance hymn this week. It's a Scottish hymn dating to the 19th...
March 03, 2018
This may be the most significant move of its kind since St. John Paul added...
March 03, 2018
This first dropped a few weeks ago, but hasn't gotten nearly the attention it deserves....
March 02, 2018
New York's Cardinal Timothy Dolan is in Charlotte, North Carolina for the funeral of Billy...
March 02, 2018
From UCANews:  A church in northwest China's Xinjiang region had its crosses, statues, bell towers...
March 01, 2018
From Reuters:  A Vatican magazine denounced widespread exploitation of nuns for cheap or free labor...
March 01, 2018
Following up on last month's big news— in which Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield repeated...
March 01, 2018
The other day, I posted over at Aleteia about the effort to recruit more men...
March 01, 2018
This idea seems quite extraordinary: With his mandatory retirement just two-and-a-half years away, Bishop Gerald...
March 01, 2018
Welcome to "The Deacon's Bench." It's good to be back in my old room. We're...

February 2018

February 28, 2018
From Vanity Fair:   On Oscar night, I’ll join a well-heeled crowd to walk the red...
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