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Many know him only as the University of Illinois professor who was sacked for explaining Catholic teaching on homosexual behavior. But the backstory is very compelling — and his life up to that point anything but ordinary: The University of Illinois scholar who lost his job over his exposition of Catholic teachings has walked a…

A BBC blogger is raising the possibility, after noting a couple other names: If not Chris Patten or Ann Widdecombe, then perhaps Paul Murphy, the former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland — a devout Catholic and a papal knight — will be approached. And if they wish to stick with a Northern Irish theme,…

This news broke Thursday afternoon: The board of trustees of a Staten Island Catholic Church have rejected the controversial sale of a church building to a Muslim group looking to open a mosque. The collapse of the deal – which would have transferred the vacant convent of St. Margaret Mary Church to the Muslim American…

I like what a priest from Brooklyn said about this last week: “I’m not in favor of bringing guns to church.  I’d be afraid that if somebody thought my homily was too long, they’d take out a gun and shoot me.”  Anyway: Louisiana’s Catholic governor just signed a law allowing them to be carried in…
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