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February 2017

February 22, 2017

WATCH: Vice President Pence prays in vandalized Jewish cemetery

In the video above, you see he prayed at the graves and helped clean up...

February 22, 2017

California, here I come …

Just a quick heads up: I'll be in Anaheim this weekend for the Los Angeles...

February 21, 2017

Muslim-Americans raise $20,000 to repair desecrated Jewish cemetery

The best news of the day: Two Muslim-Americans activists launched a crowdfunding campaign Tuesday to...

February 21, 2017

Meet the 97-year-old nun who is chaplain to Loyola’s basketball team

Loyola University profiled her last year on her 96th birthday (check out the video here),...

February 21, 2017

Bishop reveals he was a victim of clergy sex abuse

This is highly unusual—first, because the victim is a bishop; and secondly, because he says...

February 21, 2017

Shock: more than 170 Jewish gravesites vandalized at cemetery in Missouri—UPDATED

Details: The gravesites of more than 170 Jews were vandalized at a cemetery in University...

February 20, 2017

WATCH: Here come the saints, in a joyful, spirit-filled Mardi Gras Mass

Mardi Gras is just a week from tomorrow, so to get you in the spirit,...

February 19, 2017

Awesome: How a newly ordained priest brought his family into the Catholic Church

A great story of faith and witness: Coming from a family with a long line...

February 18, 2017

WATCH: Melania Trump begins Florida rally with The Lord’s Prayer

This is something altogether different. When was the last time a president began a rally...

February 18, 2017

Norma McCorvey, a.k.a. ‘Jane Roe,’ dies at 69—UPDATED

From The Washington Post: Norma McCorvey, who was 22, unwed, mired in addiction and poverty,...

February 18, 2017

‘On our second date, we went to church…’

A thoughtful reflection on dating and faith appears today in, of all places, The Washington...

February 18, 2017

Loving our enemies: Homily for February 19, 2017, 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time

If you wanted to find the most challenging, most difficult, most confounding passage in all...

February 17, 2017

Ordination update: 14 new deacons for Charleston

The Catholic Miscellany has posted this slide show below on its Facebook page, spotlighting the diaconate...

February 17, 2017

What does the world need now? This. Lots of it.

There's a message here for our times. And it goes a lot deeper and says...

February 16, 2017

Unkindest cut: student under investigation for giving free haircuts to homeless

Details: A local cosmetology student is being investigating for giving free haircuts to homeless in the...

February 16, 2017

Cursives! Foiled again!

Is penmanship making a comeback? Check this out: Cursive handwriting instruction is returning to elementary...

February 16, 2017

‘This is unprecedented’: Dozens of Jewish Community Centers around the country targeted with ‘telephone terrorism’

From CNN: Samantha Taylor was at Orlando's Jewish Community Center for a morning meeting when...

February 15, 2017

Search underway for kidnapped Colombian nun

From Vatican Radio: The Colombian Foreign Ministry confirmed last Wednesday from the San Carlos Palace...

February 15, 2017

Young Muslim volunteers help repair Mosul church damaged by ISIS

From Fides: About 30 young people, belonging to an organization of civilian volunteers, mostly Muslims, cleaned...

February 15, 2017

Heart and Seoul: South Korea wants to share its priests with the world

Details: Seoul Archdiocese wants to become the ecclesiastical version of a dandelion, spreading priests the...

February 14, 2017

St. Lucia of Fatima?

The last of the children of that apparition to die (shown above on the left)...

February 14, 2017

Franciscan recovering from attack asks for prayers for his assailant

You may remember this item from a few days back. The priest who was attacked...

February 14, 2017

RIP, Lt. Gen. Harold Moore, Catholic immortalized in Mel Gibson movie

From The New York Times: Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore, whose fortitude saved most of...

February 14, 2017

Chaput: ‘It’s just amazing to me how hostile the press is to everything the president does’

From Philly.com: Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput told a radio talk show host Mondaythat he...

February 13, 2017

Kentucky Senate passes bill to allow Bible to be taught in schools

Details: The Kentucky Senate passed a bill which would allow the use of the Bible...

February 13, 2017

Urgent prayer request: deacon critically injured in car accident

Details: Carlos Hernandez is a deeply loved husband, father, brother, grandfather, uncle, friend and Deacon....

February 13, 2017

New York Times: Religious conservatives finally feel they have an ally in the White House

From The New York Times: Mr. Trump, a profane, bombastic, thrice-married New Yorker, may not...

February 12, 2017

Rising star: Fashion designer with Down syndrome takes world by storm

What a great witness to life! How cool is this: Isabella Springmuhl has faced her...

February 12, 2017

‘Blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord’: A homily for World Marriage Day

Found this in the vault and it seems a timely message. This is my homily...

February 11, 2017

Pope Francis appoints special envoy to Medjugorje

Details: Pope Francis has appointed Archbishop Henryk Hoser of Warsaw-Prague, Poland, to be the Holy...