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January 2017

January 04, 2017
From Pew:  The share of U.S. adults who describe themselves as Christians has been declining...
January 03, 2017
It happened in Phoenix. A report from the Daily Mail in the UK: A church...
January 03, 2017
A friend posted this on Facebook, something to ponder at the start of a new...
January 03, 2017
A great reflection at the start of the new year from the co-host of HGTV's "Fixer...
January 02, 2017
From The Chicago Tribune: The nuns always come to the Westmont dentist in pairs, dressed...
January 02, 2017
That happened to writer Egan Millard, who describes his experience attending an Episcopalian service with...
January 01, 2017
From the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Comedian Jim Gaffigan is famous for his jokes about foods like Hot Pockets,...
January 01, 2017
Consider this your warm-up for the Exsultet. A lot of places don’t do this chant anymore;...
January 01, 2017
For a time, he played the most visible Catholic priest on American television—arguably the most...
January 01, 2017
From Vatican Radio:  Pope Francis has condemned the deadly New Year’s Eve terror attack on...

December 2016

December 31, 2016
How is your new year going so far? At this early hour in this brand...
December 31, 2016
These guys are a phenomenon. Behold, Kristin and Danny Adams, a married couple with young...
December 31, 2016
Well, this is different: an interpretation of the Nativity which shows disembodied hands reaching out...
December 30, 2016
One progressive theologian thinks it could happen. From NCR:  Pope Francis may soon fulfill the Brazilian bishops'...
December 30, 2016
Details: On the morning of Dec. 10 in a cemetery in Quincy, Father Augustus Tolton’s...
December 30, 2016
Details:  During 2016, nearly 4 million people came to see the Pope at the Vatican....
December 30, 2016
Details:  Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has denied being an atheist and said that he considers...
December 30, 2016
From The Washington Post:  An organization of Catholic businesses is suing the Obama administration over...
December 30, 2016
From The Los Angeles Times, the star of "Hacksaw Ridge" and "Silence" opens up: Garfield...
December 29, 2016
This is too good not to put out there: arguably the best-known number from "The Unsinkable...
December 29, 2016
Details:  A televangelist who encourages her followers to get closer to God by sending money...
December 29, 2016
This strikes me as a very good idea:  In response to divisions that emerged from...
December 29, 2016
From CNS:  When it comes to walking in the shoes of the people one serves,...
December 29, 2016
Who could forget this moment from the 1966 musical "The Singing Nun," loosely adapted from...
December 29, 2016
I'm late getting to this...but a few people have asked me if I had a...
December 28, 2016
Details from the Washington Post: Six prominent clergy members — including a Catholic cardinal, black...
December 28, 2016
Awesome: Bishop Pedro Torres and Marcello Rabbi Polakoff showed that there really is no "us"...
December 27, 2016
As  the world mourns the loss of the actress who created one of the iconic...
December 27, 2016
  From The Christian Review:  The latter half of the 20th century brought its share...
December 27, 2016
From St. Louis:  In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth. Then there...
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