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This weekend is an especially exhausting one for Catholic clergy — is it Monday yet? — but it’s more frenetic and harried in regions hard hit by the priest shortage. The Baltimore Sun has a case in point: On Palm Sunday morning, the Rev. Jim Hannon awoke at 5:30, prayed and then exercised on a…

This writer in today’s New York Daily News offers some trenchant observations on the state of Catholic America, particularly in light of the Notre Dame controversy: If it looks like there’s an identity crisis within the Catholic contingent, there is – but the divisive episode at Notre Dame was hardly the catalyst. This is a…

With all the other things happening on Palm Sunday, it didn’t get much attention, but there was a sizable protest last weekend at Notre Dame. (If you have to ask what it was about, you haven’t been paying attention.) From the Chicago Sun Times: Hundreds of anti-abortion advocates protested Sunday on the University of Notre…

It was a more-dramatic-than-usual Palm Sunday at St. Patrick’s, as Rocco reports, with updates: Cardinal Edward Egan was taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital [late Saturday] after experiencing stomach pains… Doctors were running tests Sunday. Egan was awake and alert. Doctors were unclear what his problem was, but Church officials said the situation was not serious.…
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