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May 2017

May 30, 2017

WATCH: Stunning anti-terror music video sweeping the Middle East

Details, from CNN: A hard-hitting video advertisement of a suicide bomber being challenged by victims...

May 30, 2017

White House acts to roll back birth control mandate

From The New York Times: Federal officials, following through on a pledge by President Trump,...

May 28, 2017

‘We choose love’: the heroic men who stood up to hate in Portland

In The New York Times, a moving account of the three men who stood up...

May 28, 2017

Bless this house: priests are becoming engineers to reconstruct homes in Iraq

From CNA: Priests in Iraq are helping reconstruct around 13,000 homes in the Plain of...

May 28, 2017

Prayer of the Ordained

Prayer of the Ordained Heavenly Father, You who ordered the universe Have also ordained the...

May 27, 2017

Ordination update: 4 new deacons for Erie

From the diocese's Facebook page: Our warmest congratulations to Kevin Harmon, Gerald Peterson, Daniel Satterlee...

May 27, 2017

Military chaplains minister to the traumatized—but who ministers to them?

From CNA, a timely and poignant reminder on this holiday weekend of remembrance: As military...

May 27, 2017

A great day in Brooklyn: 12 new deacons ordained

I'm pleased and proud to have been there at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph to...

May 27, 2017

Zbigniew Brzezinski dies

From The New York Times: Zbigniew Brzezinski, the hawkish strategic theorist who was national security...

May 26, 2017

Prayer for the Day of Ordination to the Diaconate

As more men prepare to commit their lives to serving the people of God during...

May 26, 2017

Slaughter: 26 dead in Egypt as gunmen fire on bus carrying Coptic Christians

From CNN: Twenty-six people have been killed in Egypt after unidentified gunmen opened fire on...

May 25, 2017

A bishop’s listicle: ’10 Really Cool Things About Being Catholic’

From Bishop Thomas Tobin of Rhode Island: Brothers and sisters, we’re living in an age...

May 24, 2017

How much does Jim Gaffigan love his wife? This much.

You may know that Jeannie Gaffigan had surgery for a brain tumor recently. Well, get...

May 24, 2017

A Catholic is about to move into the White House: Melania Trump

From The Daily Mail: When Melania Trump recited The Lord's Prayer before a Melbourne, Florida...

May 24, 2017

In Philippines: at least 21 reported killed, Catholic priest and worshippers seized, in attack linked to ISIS

Details: Militants linked to Islamic State swept through a southern Philippine city, beheading a police...

May 24, 2017

WATCH: Proof that you can never have too many deacons

The Vatican announced last month that "the number of deacons is increasing on every continent...

May 23, 2017

Harvey Keitel to star in ‘Fatima’

From The Hollywood Reporter: Arclight Films on Thursday unveiled new drama Fatima, starring Harvey Keitel...

May 23, 2017

WATCH: Tightening security around the Vatican ahead of Trump visit

Only hours before the historic meeting between the pontiff and the president, bomb disposal experts...

May 23, 2017

Ordination update: 5 new deacons for Green Bay—and one is a TV reporter

From The Compass, the story: Robert Hornacek regularly asks questions as a reporter for WLUK...

May 23, 2017

Seminarian who saved the Eucharist from ISIS returns as a priest

Beautiful: Martin Baani was just 24 years old when he risked his life as a...

May 22, 2017

Look who came to venerate relics of Padre Pio: actor Joe Mantegna

From The Arlington Catholic Herald: Catholics from the Arlington Diocese and beyond venerated the relics...

May 22, 2017

Ordination update: 26 new deacons for Peoria

From Bishop Daniel Jenky's Facebook page—along with some beautiful pictures—here are the names: To the...

May 22, 2017

When the Pope meets the President: how it came about

Wednesday will mark the historic meeting between Donald Trump and Pope Francis. La Stampa's Vatican...

May 22, 2017

Philippines bans rosaries, icons on car dashboards

From AFP: The Philippine authorities have banned hanging rosaries and religious icons off car dashboards...

May 21, 2017

On Mother’s Day, this mother saved her daughter’s life, only to lose her own

A heartbreaking tragedy, from The Washington Post: As her husband was buying her flowers, Diane...

May 20, 2017

Ordination update: 15 new deacons for Metuchen

The press release: Fifteen men were ordained as deacons for service in the Diocese of...

May 20, 2017

We are not orphans: Homily for May 21, 2017, 6th Sunday of Easter

Last week, a colleague of mine at work began a pastoral visit to one of...

May 20, 2017

Bloomberg at Villanova: ‘Doubt a little of your own infallibility’

This is part of Michael Bloomberg's commencement speech, delivered yesterday at Villanova University: The reason...

May 19, 2017

Something we all need: ‘A Catholic Spirituality of Commuter Delays’

From my neighbor to the east, Bishop John Barres of Rockville Centre. Watch the video...

May 19, 2017

Cuba builds its first Catholic church in 60 years, thanks to a parish in Florida

From The Tampa Bay Times: Faith now counts among the ties that bind Tampa and...