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December 2020

December 04, 2020
Until recently, I had not been interested in downloading and signing up for an account...

November 2020

November 20, 2020
It should go without saying, but we're not living in "normal times" in 2020. Apart...
November 03, 2020
I had the privilege of covering the Oct. 31 beatification Mass of Father Michael McGivney,...

October 2020

October 28, 2020
Father Brian Massingale was in a Zoom meeting last Wednesday morning when his phone began...
October 22, 2020
  Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami, the chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic...
October 22, 2020
The leadership of the Maryknoll Sisters, Fathers and Brothers, Lay Missioners, and Affiliates issued the...
October 20, 2020
I recently wrote about the People of Praise covenanted community for Our Sunday Visitor.  You...
October 20, 2020
If someone's go-to political strategy is to warn people that they are fake Catholics or...
October 19, 2020
The Biden-Harris campaign has gone to some lengths to distance itself from the "Defund the...
October 19, 2020
EWTN CEO Michael Warsaw only mentions Donald Trump by name once, and never tells the...
October 16, 2020
With less than three weeks before Election Day, Vice President Mike Pence sat down for...
October 16, 2020
It's been interesting to read the different takes in Catholic and secular media on Judge...
October 09, 2020
Via Catholic News Service: The Diocese of Brooklyn filed a lawsuit in federal court Oct....
October 09, 2020
I was a crime reporter for several years, and covered some pretty horrific and bizarre...
October 08, 2020
The Our Sunday Visitor weekly newspaper, where I have the privilege of serving as a...
October 07, 2020
John Bursch, a senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, writes in Newsweek that the U.S....
October 06, 2020
The Associated Press is reporting that the Australian man who accused Cardinal George Pell of...
October 06, 2020
Paul Elie, a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World...
October 06, 2020
I covered a virtual panel dialogue this week for Our Sunday Visitor where several panelists...
October 04, 2020
It seems almost hard to imagine in today's COVID-19 era, but five years ago I...

September 2020

September 19, 2020
Some Catholics today see their neighbor like an evil cartoon villain. That's unchristian, and dangerous.
September 14, 2020
If you didn't know who Father James Altman was before last week, you probably know...
September 02, 2020
When someone tells you, "I'm sorry if I said or did something to upset you,"...

August 2020

August 07, 2020
The Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks happened in my second-to-last semester at Hunter College, which...
August 01, 2020
The Catholic Church in the United States, not the NBA, should be leading the charge...

July 2020

July 21, 2020
The first rough draft of the Black Lives Matter story I wrote last week for...
July 17, 2020
Last month, I covered a virtual panel discussion on racism organized by Georgetown University's Initiative...
July 17, 2020
I interviewed Francesco Cesareo, the former chairman of the National Review Board, last week for...
July 05, 2020
Michael Jordan's final shot with the Chicago Bulls won them their sixth championship. ESPN publicity...
July 01, 2020
Last week, I interviewed Gloria Purvis, the lead host of EWTN Radio's Morning Glory show,...
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