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May 2012

May 08, 2012

‘the vote of Mass-attending Catholics will be one of the high dramas in this presidential election’

Steve Wagner gives some grounded analysis of what's happening with the so-called Catholic vote here....

May 07, 2012

Ryan’s Hope

I just got back from Rome, where I ran into Fr. Thomas Williams at a...

May 07, 2012

A Dangerous New Day

In his Wall Street Journal column last week, on Paul Ryan’s battle with critics of...

May 07, 2012

‘Catholic identity is a priority.’

That quote came from Cardinal Dolan recently in a homily from his Fifth Avenue pulpit....

May 07, 2012

A Flashback Quote of the Day

I suspect this will be appreciated by readers and writers, via the Wedgewood Circle: But...

May 07, 2012

When the Rod Must Smash the iPod

You may have guessed that I am a proponent of making use of new technology...

May 01, 2012

He Blesses Us

I took this photo today at St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome today: The...

April 2012

April 26, 2012

The Kids in Congress’s Backyard

John Boehner has demonstrated a commitment to them. The Speaker’s social-justice project – one of...

April 24, 2012

‘Catholic identity is a priority.’

Teach the children well, was the Sunday message from Fifth Avenue. From Timothy Cardinal Dolan's...

April 24, 2012

‘He Always Has His Arms Outstretched to Me’

Oh my goodness, you want to watch this child: May we all pray with the...

April 23, 2012

Where Were These People When I Was Running for President?

The question had to be going through my friend Rick Santorum’s mind last week as...

April 22, 2012

Enter In

From Father George W. Rutler's bulletin column (which you can receive in your inbox weekly):...

April 20, 2012

Nunsense

By the way, I was hanging out with one of the coolest women in Washington...

April 20, 2012

Happy Birthday, Mother Angelica!

It's this media trailblazer's 89th birthday today.

April 20, 2012

Regarding the Tragic Unraveling of Women’s Religious Communities

Ann Carey puts the Leadership Conference of Women Religious news in some context.

April 20, 2012

‘It’s About Time’

That is what a friend of mine, a recent convert not known for her authoritarian...

April 20, 2012

Oh Brother, Oh Boehner

There are Catholics raising questions about Paul Ryan's budget. And there are Catholics, like Paul...

April 19, 2012

Mother, May We Fight for Freedom?

I don't know what you've read about nuns today, but I want you to have...

April 18, 2012

I Have a Dopey Question for Time Magazine

Dopey because I probably should be immune to media bias by now. I probably should...

April 16, 2012

Easter Dynamite

From Magnificat Monday, from the late Scripture scholar Father Ignace de la Potterie, S.J.: Baptism...

April 16, 2012

Do You Feel Called to Defend the Church in the Public Square?

An announcement about a developing project I have some involvement in and would encourage those...

April 16, 2012

My B16 Birthday Album: Freedom as Challenge

As others note today, April 16th is Pope Benedict VXI’s 85th birthday. Vatican Radio reports...

April 12, 2012

Was Jesus Just Some Good Dude Who Used to Live?

I found myself thinking of a Sunday homily this morning. Because it is still Easter....

April 10, 2012

‘God’s Love Is More Powerful Than Anything in the World’

The title line comes from a new video from Fr. Robert Barron. His talk is...

April 09, 2012

Dolan on Politics

More here about that Face the Nation interview. And a media point here. And one...

April 09, 2012

I Just Caught Myself

Telling someone I hope they had a happy Easter. As if it is past tense...

April 09, 2012

Cardinal Dolan Takes to the Sunday Show Pulpit, Preaching the Message of True Freedom

I’m forever uncomfortable with the concept of the Sunday morning political talk shows. As someone...

April 09, 2012

Easter Monday Morning

There was sunlight this morning sneaking in through the cracks in a curtain as I...

April 07, 2012

Happy Easter!

Glorious night! Transformative night! Exult, let them exult, the hosts of heaven, exult, the Angel...

April 07, 2012

True Confessions

From a veteran priest in a Washington Post piece today on Reconciliation: “I’ve been hearing...