That seems to be the big news waiting to break, via Brit blogger Damian Thompson: The Pope’s press officer, Fr Federico Lombardi, is to resign after Benedict XVI’s visit to the Holy Land, according to Italian and German press reports. Hat tip: Catholic Church Conservation, a traditionalist blog run by Chris Gillibrand in Brussels. Fr…

Ever since Cardinal Egan’s eyebrow-raising remarks on celibacy earlier this month, there’s been more discussion about a married priesthood. (Shameless plug: Part of that discussion will take part Sunday night on The NET, on a program I produce called “In the Arena,” where we’ll talk to a married priest from Connecticut and hear — surprisingly…

Okay, well, not exactly. But on the NET series “City of Churches” last week, they visited and toured my old parish in Astoria, Queens, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. The neighborhood has the greatest concentration of Greeks outside of Athens. Take a look below. The guide is pastor Msgr. Sean Ogle, a terrific and much-loved…

We know newsrooms are laying off staff and there is even word now that some broadcast outlets may outsource their sports coverage. But then you see something like this and think: “Last one out of the newsroom, please turn off the lights.” As someone who toiled long and hard in the trenches of broadcast journalism,…

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