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March 2013

March 27, 2013

Was this the key to Bergoglio’s election as pope?

A Cuban cardinal has shared Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio's intervention during the pre-conclave General Congregation meetings:...

March 21, 2013

Vatican releases official photograph of Pope Francis

From the Vatican news site Facebook page: Dear friends, we show you the official photo...

March 20, 2013

Report: Francis and Bartholomew may travel to Holy Land together

Details: The ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople has invited Pope Francis to travel with him to...

March 17, 2013

A great story of Jorge Bergoglio and a poor widow who wanted her children baptized

A revealing anecdote from an interview in 2009 with the man who would become Pope...

March 08, 2013

Catholic support for gay marriage growing

That, according to a new poll. From Politico: Among Catholics, 54 percent back same-sex marriage,...

February 2013

February 27, 2013

An evangelical confesses: “I’m a wanna-be Catholic”

Charles Redfern spills the beans over at HuffPo: It's time I come clean. I'm an...

February 08, 2013

“So a sex offender is heading an archdiocesan office…”

That about sums it up. From Phil Lawler: Sunday brought the staggering news that in...

February 08, 2013

Leo Burnett ad agency travels to Spain to have new website blessed

This may be a first. The Brussels office of one of the largest and most...

February 04, 2013

HHS mandate: the Cliff Notes version

Our own Frank Weathers has read the mandate so that you don't have to! His...

February 02, 2013

Like the Latin Mass? You’ll love this.

This is a beautifully produced video promoting the Latin Mass. The Vimeo blurb says it...

February 01, 2013

Ed Koch’s last question: “Do you miss me?”

This is pretty great. The New York Times got the former mayor to sit down...

January 2013

January 31, 2013

“Lately, I have begun to feel differently about the way Michael Voris defends the Church…”

While it's not unusual to find Michael Voris detractors on the interwebs, it is surprising...

January 31, 2013

Bishop Farrell: “Our deacons are a great gift to the church…”

Bishop Kevin Farrell, of the Diocese of Dallas, looks forward to some upcoming ordinations: It...

January 30, 2013

For Catholic Schools Week: in praise of my parish’s school

With Catholic Schools Week now at its midway point, I thought I'd repost something from...

January 23, 2013

The warning signs of “Monsignor Meth”

The Connecticut Post has details: Looking back there were the usual warning signs, those nagging...

January 18, 2013

From Iowa family man to Catholic priest

And, along the way, he was also a permanent deacon. Details, from the Gazette: The Rev....

January 15, 2013

One man’s road to the priesthood: “I fell in love”

From my blogging friend and neighbor, Fr. Michael Duffy, heres's great testimony on his own...

January 12, 2013

On women priests: “If you really loved the church, you’d be a little broken up about being excommunicated…”

You no doubt remember the video "Ordain a Lady" that set jaws dropping around the...

January 11, 2013

Sweet surprise: a flash mob at an unemployment office?

Yes. Just when you thought someone couldn't find a new and surprising way to do...

January 10, 2013

“Instagram dat joint!”

Watch what happens when a clever dude with a camera, a costume and a car...

January 07, 2013

“Hungry” gets a little buzz

A few weeks back, I posted on the collection of homilies to which I contributed,...

December 2012

December 23, 2012

The best advice I ever got about serving Mass at Christmas…

...It was actually something I overheard. As I've noted before, we have a remarkable cadre...

December 17, 2012

Need a smile? This should do it.

God bless Tom McDonald for digging up this wonderful picture, which came along at a...

December 14, 2012

Horror: 18 children dead in Connecticut school shooting

Eleven days before Christmas, a nightmare. From Associated Press: A gunman opened fire inside a...

December 13, 2012

Who is Dorothy Day?

Yesterday, I posted Part I of CNS's profile of this future saint. Part II is...

December 04, 2012

Dissent of the day: “The permanent diaconate is not a primary vocation…”

Some weeks back, I posted an e-mail that took issue with the vocation of permanent...

November 2012

November 21, 2012

How Lincoln gave thanks: his proclamation

With the 16th president cleaning up at the box office these days, here's another reminder...

November 19, 2012

When in Rome: priests, bishops should wear cassocks

It's back to the future. Again. Details: Bishops, priests and religious should wear the formal...

November 18, 2012

“Time, like an ever rolling stream, soon bears us all away…”

What you see here is the view from the sanctuary in my parish this afternoon,...

November 15, 2012

Woman dies in Ireland after being denied an abortion—UPDATED

Details: The debate over legalizing abortion in Ireland flared Wednesday after the government confirmed a...