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Beautiful Meditation by Cardinal Newman
So much of whatever Cardinal Newman chose to write about cut right to the heart...
March 08, 2009
More on Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust
This from the Catholic News Service wire:VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A document found in a...
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Desegregating the Altar: John Slattery & the Josephites
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Today that wonderfully Ignatian blog Good Jesuit, Bad Jesuit notes that Harvey Keitel will be...
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The Sisters: Shapers of American Catholicism
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Neither Irish nor Catholic Need Apply
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America’s First Polish Cardinal
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“The poor Wretches, fingering their Beads, chanting Latin”
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The Irish and American Catholicism
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“I thought Catholics were the worst people on earth.”
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