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April 2014

April 14, 2014

F-bombs and Palm Sunday: Mark Wahlberg at MTV Movie Awards

The Catholic actor took the stage at the MTV Awards last night—and it was definitely...

April 09, 2014

Restoring the Holy Stairs shrine: “We touch history”

Fascinating stuff, from CNS: A restorer carefully peeled back a thin wet veil of paper...

April 09, 2014

Christians? What would the neighbors think?

A mother struggles with being both a Christian and a liberal academic—and it sounds like...

April 04, 2014

Scientists say the ark would float—even with 35,000 species of animals

Don't try this at home. Although it seems scientists think it would work: Noah's Ark...

April 02, 2014

My favorite award

Forget the Oscars. These annual awards, I think, really mean something, because they honor work...

April 02, 2014

If you like your toast on the dark side…

...then this is just what you've been waiting for. Seriously. This can be yours. Read...

April 01, 2014

Is this the Holy Grail?

Just in time for Easter, from The New York Daily News: Two historians claim the...

April 01, 2014

An infallible sense of fashion

Can you imagine if they showed up at the same party wearing the same outfit?...

March 2014

March 29, 2014

Chaplains erect billboard supporting phrase “So help me God”—UPDATED

This press release was posted by the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Freedom: The Chaplain Alliance...

March 27, 2014

What should you wear to meet the pope?

CNS sent out the picture below this morning. It's unusual, I thought, to see a...

March 27, 2014

Woman begins serving jail sentence for posing nude in front of Catholic school

Now for something completely different. From a TV station in Lincoln, Nebraska: The 19-year-old who...

March 25, 2014

Sweet: how a Cardinal helped a boy ask a girl to the prom

From The Manchester Union Leader: Trinity High School senior Bryce Pepin was ready to ask...

March 21, 2014

“You are married to the Lord and your daddy is your boyfriend”

A growing phenomenon in some places, as reported by the Daily Mail: Purity balls, in...

March 18, 2014

Wow: the eye-popping pre-game floor projection for the Cleveland Cavaliers

This is almost worth the price of a ticket itself. The geniuses behind this idea describe...

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 17, 2014

Should we return to meatless Fridays all year?

Some bishops are pushing the idea, according to CNS: Several Australian bishops said they would...

March 14, 2014

In Paris, a chance to see relics of Christ’s passion, including the crown of thorns

This is news to me: The cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris is exposing relics of the...

March 13, 2014

Just in time for St. Paddy’s Day…a green river and square watermelons?

Some ingenious advertising from a few years ago in Chicago: That's a classic example of...

March 13, 2014

Whatever happened to…Mel Gibson?

This Lent marks the 10-year anniversary of his controversial (and record-shattering) "The Passion of the...

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

Who’s that guy in the green shirt? You’ll never guess.

Second from the right? In green shirt and blue pants? Osama Bin Laden. Visiting Sweden...

March 04, 2014

How Catholics—and Lent—changed the McDonald’s menu

An alert reader found this news online: Chick-Fil-A is introducing a fish sandwich for Lent. ...

March 04, 2014

The future is here: check out the incredible table / tablet that Pizza Hut is promoting

Wow. Just...wow. First, helicopter drones delivering books for Amazon, now this. Behold the concept for...

March 03, 2014

Matthew McConaughey, Mass-goer?

A great big H/T to Terry Mattingly over at Get Religion, who unearthed this nugget...

March 03, 2014

Why not “Ashes to Go”?

Our Anglican siblings have been promoting this idea for a few years: On Ash Wednesday...

February 2014

February 28, 2014

“Not yet, Daddy still here”: Man declared dead wakes up in body bag

Memo to self: leave explicit instruction to make sure they DOUBLE CHECK before carting me...

February 25, 2014

“Dear Jimmy Fallon…”

My blog neighbor Katrina Fernandez—reading of the late night host's Catholic roots—wants to woo him back....

February 25, 2014

Ah, only in New York…

Yes, evidently they really do have things like this: If Jewish food were to have...

February 18, 2014

No joke: country facing national clown shortage

Though some politicians may make us feel otherwise, industry professionals insist this a dying art....

February 12, 2014

Wheel faith: Miami bikers raise funds for Catholic charity

Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski sports his custom riding vest - a gift from the Florida...