At the US News & World Report, their religion blogger Dan Gilgoff recently chatted with Deal Hudson about the GOP and HHS: Trying to understand why Republican leaders have been all but silent on Kathleen Sebelius’s appointment to head the Department of Health and Human Services even as the party’s antiabortion base goes ballistic, I…

That seems to be the thesis behind this item from Our Sunday Visitor — and after a long career in the business, I can’t disagree: Back in January, with fanfare, the Vatican announced that it was launching a site on YouTube. I confess to wondering just how many YouTube people will frequent a site featuring…

…is having a chapel down the hall with a window like this: It was just installed yesterday, and depicts Christ on the seashore, calling to fishermen who are tending their nets — an apt image for a television channel called The NET (New Evangelization Television.) A tabernacle and several chairs are also going into the…

After disappearing from the Catholic radar screen, the notorious Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) may be about to make a return. From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: A proposed bill promising major changes in the U.S. abortion landscape has Roman Catholic bishops threatening to close Catholic hospitals if the Democratic Congress and White House make it…

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