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April 2014

April 19, 2014

Rejoice: America’s newest parish will be launched tomorrow—UPDATED WITH VIDEO

Some wonderful news about my friend Father Gregory West and his growing flock in South...

March 2014

March 31, 2014

Bridgeport’s Caggiano to Voice of the Faithful: “We are family”

I overheard someone mentioning this on the elevator this afternoon. It happened a couple weeks...

March 29, 2014

Drawn to faith: an artist creates homilies in pen and ink

From The St. Louis Post-Dispatch: On the second Sunday of Lent, John Hendrix sits in...

March 28, 2014

The Economist: the changing Catholic Church in America

Details: American Catholicism is becoming knitted into a broader Latin American faith. This matters, even...

March 26, 2014

“Who’s more important? The Pope or that little old lady who recites the rosary every day?”

That's part of what Pope Francis had to say the other day on the subject...

March 19, 2014

Sentenced to life behind bars—and finding new life in the Eucharist

Details, from Catholic San Francisco: A San Quentin prisoner sentenced to life for his role...

March 18, 2014

Surprise: most Irish-Americans are not Catholic

Details, from Religion News Service: In the American imagination, to be Irish is to be...

March 13, 2014

Poll: one in five Americans says religion “not that important”

From NBC: One in five Americans say religion does not play an important role in...

March 12, 2014

RIP, Ned O’Gorman

This news broke while I was away this weekend. Ned O'Gorman represents part of a...

March 11, 2014

Boom: this Easter, Archdiocese of Washington to bring in largest group of new Catholics ever

Great news: Cardinal Donald Wuerl, archbishop of Washington, addressed those gathered at the Basilica of...

March 10, 2014

Millennials: unattached to everything, including religion

From a new Pew study: The Millennial generation is forging a distinctive path into adulthood....

March 10, 2014

What does it mean to be “Catholic”?

Author Peter Manseau looks at that question in The New York Times: Even as the...

March 01, 2014

Boom: young Texas diocese has grown nearly 70% in a decade

Details: Whether it’s the charitable acts of Pope Francis, the church’s emphasis on family or...

February 2014

February 19, 2014

Japanese bishops respond to Vatican survey, saying Church “often falls short”

From NCR: Japan's bishops have publicly responded to a Vatican survey of global Catholics' views...

February 17, 2014

New York bishops release pastoral letter on mental illness

From Zenit: The bishops of New York State have published a pastoral letter regarding people...

February 15, 2014

Why are Americans more religious than Europeans?

Good question. One answer, from writer E. Brooks Holifield: Many Western Europeans think of Americans...

February 10, 2014

The most Catholic states in America

Unsurprisingly, they're all on the East Coast, where European immigrants—many, of course, Catholic— first put...

February 09, 2014

International poll shows split among Catholics

From The Washington Post: Most Catholics worldwide disagree with church teachings on divorce, abortion and...

February 04, 2014

In blunt report, German bishops say Catholics reject Church teaching on sex

Details: Germany's Catholic bishops, responding to a worldwide Vatican survey, said on Monday that many...

February 03, 2014

The schuss of the fisherman: bringing Mass to skiers in upstate New York

Photo: Robert Kirkham / Buffalo News From The Buffalo News: It’s Sunday morning and, beneath...

January 2014

January 12, 2014

Buffalo Catholics organize “Mass Mob” for parishes

This is something altogether different, from the Buffalo News: Sam Kolodziej Jr. had a few...

January 09, 2014

Knock, knock: parish launches ambitious door-to-door missionary program

Photo: Zac Boesch Louis Review From The St. Louis Review: From inside a dark home,...

January 05, 2014

Boom: California city builds first new Catholic church in 45 years

Rendering of church designed by Robert Habiger of Dekker/Perich/Sabatini, with revisions by Mark Russell,...

January 03, 2014

“Sometimes you just have to shut up…”

When was the last time this happened with an American politician? Read on, from the...

January 02, 2014

How NOT to take Communion to the homebound—UPDATED

After igniting some lively discussion on Facebook—and a fair amount of criticism for her approach—Michelle...

December 2013

December 26, 2013

A pastor’s investment: give each parishioner $50—and a challenge

Photo: Dan Gross/The Gazette What a great idea: It was like a collection basket in...

December 24, 2013

CDF: SSPX in schism

From Catholic Culture: The leaders of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) are...

December 22, 2013

Catholics in the Age of Francis

A snapshot of reactions and insights from a variety of people in The Boston Globe: ...

December 16, 2013

Missionaries on the streets of New York City

On a snowy weekend, the Basilica of Old St. Patrick's in New York's Little Italy...

December 09, 2013

The “consumer mentality” of American parishes: Want fries with that?

An episcopal priest, Fr. Tim Schenck, has some interesting observations on his blog, and I...