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In Allentown, the local press is sitting up and taking notice of the diocese’s incoming bishop — and his story is certainly out-of-the-ordinary, with influences ranging from Lincoln to Sheen to JPII: Monsignor John Barres’ life must feel as unsettled as the weather of these late June days. He carries an awkward interim title —…

While the U.S. bishops are meeting in San Antonio this week, the subject of President Obama’s visit to Notre Dame came up. And as John Allen reports, it doesn’t appear the bishops are in any mood right now to take any action toward to the university in response: I sat down with Bishop Gerald Kicanas…

An interesting development out of the bishops’ meeting in Texas: a special new mass liturgy may be heading our way before long. Take a look: Nearly 20 years after Cardinal John O’Connor of New York suggested it, the U.S. bishops approved a Mass in Thanksgiving for the Gift of Human Life June 18 during their…

The USCCB has weighed in with its own review of Ron Howard’s “Angels & Demons”: Highly improbable but mindlessly entertaining sequel to “The Da Vinci Code” – adapted from Dan Brown’s prequel written in 2000 — in which religious symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) and a scientist (Ayelet Zurer) join forces with a church official…
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