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April 2017

April 28, 2017
Details, from Scotland: It's hoped a new online documentary will inspire the men of Motherwell to become...
April 28, 2017
Details:  A prison spokesman says an Arkansas inmate scheduled to be the fourth executed in...
April 27, 2017
He has said this before, and he underscored it again today:  The Catholic Church needs laypeople...
April 27, 2017
The post you are looking for has been removed, as I have had some second...
April 27, 2017
I've never seen anything like this. From the Facebook page of Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral...
April 27, 2017
He's been a familiar presence on cable television for years, but there's more to Bob Beckel...
April 27, 2017
Details:  A new Swedish study has shown that women who are taking the contraceptive pill...
April 26, 2017
Check out this intriguing interview from The TODAY Show, in which she talks about her...
April 26, 2017
Details:  Vice President Mike Pence and key members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet participate in...
April 25, 2017
Details:  Inside what look like oversized ziplock bags strewn with tubes of blood and fluid,...
April 25, 2017
Here's news of an interesting effort in France, where a local bishop organized a special...
April 24, 2017
From The Boston Globe:  The Archdiocese of Boston has been closing churches in the city...
April 24, 2017
From CNN:  The political world lost a legend this weekend. Kate O'Beirne, longtime Washington editor...
April 24, 2017
Details:  One Saturday afternoon this month a band gathered to jam at the Dominican House...
April 23, 2017
Pray for him:  The 28 percent of Democrats who oppose abortion have no place in...
April 23, 2017
From CNN: Pope Francis has drawn a rebuke from the American Jewish Committee after he...
April 23, 2017
This Sunday, the man I'm mentoring in the diaconate program made his profession of faith...
April 22, 2017
From CNN, a notable detail from the execution on Thursday: Arkansas executed convicted murderer Ledell...
April 22, 2017
This story moved last month and is just now crossing my radar screen, from New...
April 22, 2017
From CNS:  Bishop Randolph Calvo of Reno, Nevada, and Dominican Sisters Mary Peter Traviss and...
April 21, 2017
Details:  Masses will not be said at any church in the Diocese of Limerick next...
April 20, 2017
Details:  Astonishing: a clip from an Egyptian news broadcast in which a Muslim journalist reacts...
April 20, 2017
This puts him on the same list as Donald Trump, Steve Bannon,  Viola Davis, Jeff Bezos...
April 20, 2017
From CNS, an interview with the head of the Friars Minor reveals a sensibility that...
April 20, 2017
Well, now...this is different:  Living in a cave with no running water or electricity would...
April 19, 2017
The same day the Fox News host lost his job, he shook hands with the...
April 19, 2017
This question arrived in my e-mail today: Last evening, we had a good number of...
April 19, 2017
Check this out, from The New York Times: Young men in Sancraieni have risen early...
April 18, 2017
From Britain's Got Talent, a four-Kleenex stunner:  For Peter Boxell, appearing on last night’s Britain’s...
April 18, 2017
From CNS: A grass-roots effort calling on Catholic churches around the world to celebrate a...
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